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IM Special Section Introduction: Rethinking International Migration in China and India
Author(s) -
Li Wei,
Bedford Richard,
Khadria Binod
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/imig.12587
Subject(s) - china , destinations , special section , section (typography) , politics , mass migration , political science , work (physics) , human migration , development economics , geography , economy , immigration , population , sociology , economics , demography , tourism , business , advertising , engineering , mechanical engineering , engineering physics , law
China and India have the world’s two largest populations and have long been major sources of migrants to other countries. In recent years, movements of Chinese and Indians for study and work overseas have been affected by developments in policies at their chosen destinations as well as at home. The flows of Chinese and Indian students and skilled migrants in the second decade of the 21st century are occurring within quite different political and economic contexts from those that prevailed even as recently as a decade ago. In the first part of this brief editorial introduction, we introduce some features of contemporary Chinese and Indian migration. The four substantive papers in the special section are then introduced, the first two with reference to the changing Asian migration patterns, and the remaining two addressing the changing dynamics of migration.