Population Mobility and Development: Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

This publication contains papers from an international conference held in 1980 to examine internal migration and its implications for economic development in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region. Papers in Part 1 are concerned with the variety and forms of population mobility with a focus on circular or temporary population movements. In Parts 2 and 3 findings are presented from micro-level studies of population mobility in the region as a whole and in Malaysia northern Thailand Yogyakarta and Papua New Guinea in particular. Emphasis is placed on the variety of mobility patterns and on the analysis of linkages between areas of origin and destination through family ties remittance patterns return migration and employment. Part 4 concerns policy issues relating to urbanization and transport. Papers are included on the adjustment of aborigine migrants to Adelaide Australia; the role of medium-sized towns in mobility trends in Papua New Guinea; rural-urban migration in Fiji; and the relationship between population mobility and changing transport patterns in Indonesia. In Part 5 policy issues relating to employment and mobility are considered. The evidence for rural labor shortages in the region is reviewed and migration-related policies in Peninsular Malaysia are evaluated.