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Population geography II: The r/age of migration
This second report focuses on the social impacts of migration in the context of the increasing politicization and contestation of migration. It is argued that Population Geography could engage in more effective ways with political debates of migration. A call is made for Population Geography to more readily provide robust evidence to shape debates, such as Brexit, and to inform the salience of ‘raging comments’ based on representations of migration as a harbinger of detrimental changes to local neighbourhoods. The discussion outlines scholarship from the UK and USA that progresses knowledge of changing population compositions and migration, to illustrate some ways that Population Geography can make valuable interventions within political, policy, media and lay discourses of migration. The paper concludes by highlighting some questions for Population Geography to reflect upon as a starting point for a more impactful Population Geography.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Progress in Human GeographyCitation
SMITH, D.P., 2018. Population geography II: The r/age of migration. Progress in Human Geography, 43 (4), pp.729-738.Publisher
SAGE © The AuthorVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-01-29Publication date
2018Notes
This paper was published in the journal Progress in Human Geography and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518760098.ISSN
0309-1325eISSN
1477-0288Publisher version
Language
- en