TY - JOUR
T1 - Stepwise international migration
T2 - A multistage migration pattern for the aspiring migrant
AU - Paul, Anju Mary
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - High cost barriers and immigration policy restrictions prevent many low-capital migrants from realizing their destination preferences. However, interviews with 95 Filipino domestic workers in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore reveal how these low-capital migrants can intentionally follow a stepwise international migration trajectory, working their way up a hierarchy of destination countries and accumulating sufficient migrant capital in the process so as to eventually gain legal entry into their preferred destinations, often in the West. Such a trajectory differs from more frequently studied migration patterns in its number of stages, duration, intentionality, hierarchical progression, and dynamic nature.
AB - High cost barriers and immigration policy restrictions prevent many low-capital migrants from realizing their destination preferences. However, interviews with 95 Filipino domestic workers in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore reveal how these low-capital migrants can intentionally follow a stepwise international migration trajectory, working their way up a hierarchy of destination countries and accumulating sufficient migrant capital in the process so as to eventually gain legal entry into their preferred destinations, often in the West. Such a trajectory differs from more frequently studied migration patterns in its number of stages, duration, intentionality, hierarchical progression, and dynamic nature.
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U2 - 10.1086/659641
DO - 10.1086/659641
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79959517633
SN - 0002-9602
VL - 116
SP - 1842
EP - 1886
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
IS - 6
ER -