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This is an interdisciplinary textbook on internal and international migration. It is designed to provide comprehensive information on these phenomena to senior and graduate students who have had a basic course in statistics. It is intended to be the sole or supplementary course book for migration courses to students of departments of demography, economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, environmental studies, and public policy. It is based on the experience of developing such a course at the University of Chicago and teaching it for five years. At least a quarter of the materials presented are based on original research by the author. It seeks to reconcile and integrate theories and empirical findings with fundamental principles of the social sciences, rather than attempting to set up separatist or unique explanations. One consequence is to conclude that there is no true solution to today's migration problems and their proper reform ; solutions will depend upon the interaction (often confrontational) of multiple forces of migrants and natives. Its aim is to provide a better understanding of what is happening, and why, while confessing that the outcome is uncertain. History has tended for squatters' (migrants') rights eventually to reach a tolerable compromise with the native social system, which also gets substantially changed by the interaction. This book documents that environmental differences are powerful forces in determining the eventual compromise.

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Donald J. Bogue has an extraordinary six-decade career of scholarship, training, and professional service to the field of Demography and Human Ecology. One of demography's most influential, prolific, and celebrated scholars, he has written pioneering studies such as Population of the United States, Principles of Demography, Fertility, Family Plannning, HIV/AIDS, and Reproductive Health, and more than 200 additional monographs and articles. He edited the influential Essays in Human Ecology (five volumes), and inaugurated the scholarly journal Demography. As Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, he has helped shape some of today's leading thinkers in the fields of Sociology, Demography, and population research. To honor these contributions, in 2011 he was named Laureate of the international Union for the Scientific Study of Population.

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