Turning the Tide? Why Development Will Not Stop Migration

Restrictive immigration policies and the militarization of external border controls by the US and the EU have failed to significantly curb immigration from Latin America and Africa. Rather, they have led to greater reliance on increasingly risky and costly irregular migration and have paradoxically encouraged permanent settlement. A commonly presented ‘smart solution’ to curb immigration is to address the perceived root causes of migration through increasing aid or liberalizing trade with origin countries. Recently, policies to stimulate remittances and to promote temporary and circular migration have also been advocated as enhancing home country development, so that these forms of migration become a medicine against illegal and permanent migration. However, besides the limited scope and credibility of such policies, empirical and theoretical evidence strongly suggests that economic and human development increases people's capabilities and aspirations and therefore tends to coincide with an increase rather than a decrease in emigration, at least in the short to medium term. Under unfavourable conditions, trade, aid and remittances can be complements to, rather than substitutes for, migration also in the longer term. At the same time, demand for both skilled and unskilled migrant labour is likely to persist. Trade, aid, return migration and remittances are no short‐cut ‘solutions’ to migration, and sustained immigration therefore seems likely.     

突出普遍价值评估与遗产构成分析方法研究——以大运河为例

中国是文化遗产大国,为了能够更好地成功申报世界文化遗产,需要准确认识和阐释遗产的突出普遍价值和遗产构成.通过对国外和国内的相关文献的分析研究,对比我国文化遗产价值评估及申请世界文化遗产(申遗)价值评估与阐释,结合大运河申遗研究,探索和完善了一种具有实际操作性的评估与分析方法.文化遗产的突出普遍价值评估和遗产构成的确定是申报世界文化遗产的基本和核心的工作,本文介绍的分析评估方法可为文化遗产突出普遍价值评估和遗产构成分析提供一种参考.     

珠江三角洲乡镇工业空间分布的分散性研究——以顺德市北滘镇为例

乡镇工业空间分布的研究具有很强的理论与现实意义。国外就这一主题的研究很少。本文在总结国内目前有关研究的基础上,以我国乡镇工业发达的珠江三角洲为研究区域,以顺德市北滘镇为实例,采用北滘镇域内109间乡镇工业企业的抽样问卷调查资料,对乡镇工业分散分布问题进行实证研究,试图从企业角度揭示和分析乡镇工业分散分布的根本原因。     

北京区县消费品零售市场差异探析

在探讨北京消费品零售市场总量变化的前提下,以吃、穿、用商品构成为出发点,利用集中化程度指数、聚类分析、回归分析等手段,着重分析区县市场的结构性变化,特别是近十几年来的发展趋势,以揭示在社会主义市场经济条件下,区域商品流通的特征,并提出有利市场发展的建议。     

生态伦理的建构及其与可持续发展关系的探讨

本文结合相关研究,概括地分析了生态伦理的源起、生态伦理的发展及其基本特点和基本原则,在此基础上,又进一步探讨了生态伦理与可持续发展之间的内在关系.