This book is intended primarily to help newcomers in the field of research on international migration using data from large-scale field surveys. It includes methods of conducting field surveys, estimating migration, and analysing migration trends, selectivity and differentials; ways to assess the impact of migration compared to other demographic, socio-economic phenomenon; and examines the social cost of migration on members of family left behind - women, children and the elderly. -- Prologue.

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