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This paper explains why some migrants travel long distances, while others (many more) move to places much closer to their region of origin.
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Given the focus and paranoia about the European migration crisis, it shows that very few of the world's migrants actually move to the countries of the west. Most remain in the global south,
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This page is a summary of: Dispositions and Destinations: Refugee Agency and “Mobility Capital” in the Bengal Diaspora, 1947–2007, Comparative Studies in Society and History, April 2013, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0010417513000030.
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