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Non-migrant, sedentary, immobile, or ‘left behind'? Reflections on the absence of migration

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This paper explores the absence of migration and different frameworks for analysing it. The aim is to move beyond a sedentary perspective, which does not problematise immobility because it is considered to be the norm and therefore, not something to be explained or scrutinised. The paper starts with a discussion of the terminology denoting the absence of migration. Two opposed interpretations of different examples of the absence of migration are then presented, based on a functionalist and co...

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International Migration Institute Publisher's website
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IMI Working Paper Series
Publication date:
2011-01-01
Paper number:
39
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1156355
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pubs:1156355
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2021-02-10

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