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Predicting the Effectiveness of Population Replacement Strategy Using Mathematical Modeling

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Intra-household conflicts in migration decisionmaking: return and pendulum migration in Morocco.

Hein De Haas¹, Tineke Fokkema

¹Oxford University.

Population and Development Review

|October 2, 2010

Summary

Aging Moroccan migrants

Area of Science:

Sociology
Demography
Transnational Studies

Background:

Examines first-generation, aging Moroccan migrants' transnational residential strategies.
Critiques migration theories focusing solely on the household as the decision-making unit.

Observation:

Analyzes the impact of intra-household power dynamics on migration decisions.
Investigates how migration choices affect family power relations.

Findings:

Many early labor migrants reunified families in Europe instead of returning to Morocco.
Pendulum migration strategies emerge to balance ties with Morocco and family reluctance to return.
Unilateral decisions against family reunification lead to return post-working life but block children's legal entry, causing intergenerational conflict.

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Published on: July 4, 2007

Implications:

Challenges the household as the sole unit of migration analysis.
Highlights the significance of intra-household conflicts and power inequalities in migration.
Reveals intergenerational tensions arising from differing migration goals and legal barriers.