Temporary Immigration, Involuntary Immigration, and Other Variations on the Standard Model

Örn B. Bodvarsson () and Hendrik Berg ()
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Örn B. Bodvarsson: St. Cloud State University
Hendrik Berg: University of Nebraska

Chapter Chapter 10 in The Economics of Immigration, 2009, pp 261-285 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter relaxes the implicit assumptions made in most immigration models, namely that people immigrate permanently and according to their own free will. Many immigrants end up returning to their native countries, either because they had explicitly decided earlier to be abroad only temporarily, or because changing circumstances led them to reverse an earlier decision to be abroad permanently. The second major issue covered in this chapter is forced, involuntary immigration. Finally, this chapter analyzes refugees, who are people seeking to escape especially threatening conditions in their native countries.

Keywords: Asylum Seeker; Destination Country; Source Country; Foreign Worker; Brain Drain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77796-0_10

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