![handle is hein.cow/anamacp0643 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION
Comparative
Perspectives on
International
Migration and
Child Well-
Being
By
ALICIA ADSERA
and
MARTA TIENDA
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nternational migration has been increasing
since 1970, with the largest flows originating
in developing nations and streaming into indus-
trialized nations (Zlotnik 2006). The United
Nations estimated the 2010 global foreign-
stock population at 214 million, up from
approximately 82 million in 1970 (United
Nations [UN] 2012; Freeman 2006). About 3.1
percent of all people did not reside in their
country of birth in 2010, compared with approx-
imately 2.2 percent in 1970.1 Contemporary
international migration differs from that of
earlier periods in several important ways related
to the social and economic well-being of
migrants, especially the young. First, the regional
origins and destinations of migrants have
changed. For example, many former European
source countries have become immigrant-
receiving nations (e.g., Spain, Italy, and
Germany), while former immigrant-receiving
South American nations now produce Europe-
bound emigrants. Second, contemporary inter-
national migration is occurring against the
backdrop of an unprecedented demographic
divide-an aging industrialized world and a
Alicia Adsera is a research scholar and lecturer at the
Woodrow Wilson School and the Office o f Population
Research at Princeton University. Her research inter-
ests are in economic demography and development.
Her recent work focuses on the determinants and con-
sequences of low fertility and migration.
Marta Tienda is Maurice P During '22 Professor in
Demographic Studies and professor of sociology and
public affairs at Princeton University. Her research
focuses on various aspects of race and ethnic stratifica-
tion, and she is codirector of Princeton University's
Global Network on Child Migration.
NOTE: The authors are very grateful to the Institut
d'Anjlisi Economica JAE, CSIC) in Barcelona and, in
particular, to Ada Ferrer Carbonell, for co-organizing
and hosting the conference where all these papers were
presented and thoroughly discussed.
DOI: 10.1177/0002716212445742
ANNALS, AAPSS, 643, September 2012](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.cow/anamacp0643&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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