This study examined the post-graduation employment location preferences of international students preparing to participate in the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program in the United States. An exploratory survey asked international students in their final semesters at three midwestern public universities to indicate their employment location…

Many scholars from developing countries receive financial incentives to go to Western countries to study and are then expected to return to develop their home country's research capacity. Given the common assumption that diasporic study will be beneficial for local research, the repatriation of these academics is an issue worthy of exploration. In…

While international student mobility has received much examination, intranational student mobility is a lesser-studied area. Data shows that residents of the four Easternmost Canadian provinces are more likely to travel outside of their home province to undertake university studies than other Canadians. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Memorial…

A growing number of South Korean students are going to an English-speaking country as teenagers to escape from the grueling, test-oriented Korean schools in hopes of gaining entry into American universities. American colleges and universities are starting to see more of these "early study abroad students," as they are called in South…

Developed heuristic model of retirement migration process and explored model using survey data from 586 migrants to western North Carolina. Investigated five distinct groups. Findings suggest that, before people start to seriously consider or plan for retirement move, they have remote or distant visions of retired life in more attractive…

Describes the human and socioeconomic aspects of political refugee problems before and after World War II. Explains factors that caused flows of forced migration throughout the world. (Author/MK)

Overviews the problems surrounding the arrival of new waves of non-Western refugees to the countries of Western Europe. (MK)

Compared data on the elderly's interstate migration patterns for 1960, 1970, and 1980 censuses. Florida ranks as top destination and continues to attract migrants, as do Arizona and Texas. Elderly migrants concentrate in a few destinations, making the impact of migration patterns on service delivery significant in certain states. (NRB)

Estimated total interstate redistribution of income due to elderly migration over 1975-80 at about $15.2 billion using published 1980 census data on the characteristics of older migrants, in combination with expenditure data from the 1980-81 Consumer Expenditure Survey. Found Florida gained one billion dollars in exchange with New York alone.…

Examined transfer of income from state to state as result of elderly migration. Data from 1980 census microdata files revealed that billions of dollars are transferred between states each year. Used 1980-81 Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey to estimate consumption patterns of typical migrant household. Findings are discussed in context of…

Since World War II, Australia has been a major country of refugee settlement. This article traces its immigrant policy and resulting population from its interest in encouraging immigration for its own population growth and development to its current commitment to help refugees and Special Humanitarian Program (SHP) cases. (ETS)

Explored issues concerning aged return migration, including the common features of states that strongly attract their migration-prone native sons and daughters and what might account for the differences in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of return and non-return migrants. (Author)

Used secondary data sources to examine relative importance of geographic mobility as factor affecting use of Veterans Administration (VA) health services by older veterans. Found that variation in state VA health service admission rates was better explained primarily by characteristics of resident nonmobile veteran population and characteristics…

In this paper the authors analyze the interactive dimensions of geographic and career mobility while at the same time examining the associated implications of these interactions for the age selectivity of migration. (Author/SSH)

Examined the influence of birth place on the internal migration and spatial redistribution patterns of foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States for 1975 to 1980 and 1985 to 1990. Differing patterns and networks established by immigrant cohorts have resulted in higher concentrations of the foreign-born compared to the…