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"Whilst it is impossible to come up with a coherent answer as to why the middle class migrate internationally, it is plausible to see i...

Many migrants leave their country of origin to go off to play employment poker in the destination country.  You have a hand to play and in o...

There are books that make me want to ask for my dissertation back so I can cite them and add to my bibliography. Redefining Japaneseness:  J...

Yet another email that asks, "Why do they [migrants/expats] stay?"  That's a deceptively simple question that never has an an...

When I first heard the term Lifestyle Migration I really didn't know what to make of it.   "Lifestyle" in English implies some...

In a previous post I talked about migrant integration and I asked readers to help me with a thought experiment that went like this: Think...

Every immigrant is also an emigrant.  Every migrant has a country or territory of origin and so the first step on any migrant's journey ...

There is a theory of international migration (one among many) called Dual Labor Market Theory.  This theory says that there are two very dif...

There is a lot of buzz right now among Americans abroad concerning a new provision in US law that allows the Internal Revenue Service to ask...

A Flophouse reader responded to yesterday's post where I talked about fear of migrants and migration with some arguments of his/her own:...

Susan Ossman , a professor at UC Riverside, has done some fascinating work on a migrant phenomenon that she calls serial migration . A ser...

On August 28, 1997 Ms. Ianka Riener filed complaint  46343/99 against Bulgaria with the European Commission of Human Rights.  Almost 10 year...

The first time our little Franco-American family headed off for Asia back in 2006 the French multinational my spouse worked for built us a g...

Contempt before investigation is a most perilous mindset and I was skirting the edges of it as I reluctantly picked up   Self-Initiated Expa...