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Understanding the aspiration to stay: a case study of young adults in Senegal
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This paper addresses the subject of immobility, an often-neglected dimension in migration studies. It begins with a critical exploration of how the migration literature theorises non-migrants and organises the explanations for immobility offered therein. The concept of 'acquiescent immobility’ is introduced to highlight the existence of non-migration preferences regardless of capability constraints. This paper argues that exploring the preference to stay, especially among poorer popula...
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- Publisher:
- International Migration Institute Publisher's website
- Series:
- IMI Working Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
- Paper number:
- 107
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1156411
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- pubs:1156411
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- 2021-02-10
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- 2015
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- Copyright 2015 The Author(s)
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