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18 - Money in Internal Migration: Financial Resources and Unequal Citizenship

from Part III - Citizenship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2021

By
Willem Maas
Edited by
Tesseltje de Lange ,
Willem Maas  and
Annette Schrauwen
Tesseltje de Lange
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Willem Maas
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Annette Schrauwen
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Summary

Money facilitates or inhibits not only international migration but also the movement of people within a political system, known as internal migration. Despite the ideal of equal citizenship, examples from around the world demonstrate that the movement of citizens across internal boundaries is not always free; central governments must strive to guarantee the rights of internal migrants. Governments at all levels (not just national level) generally value rich or otherwise desirable migrants while generally fearing or shunning poor or undesirable migrants. Money often makes the difference between being wanted or unwanted – and this holds true even when the prospective migrants are internal migrants with shared rights and citizenship. Housing restrictions, efforts to attract well-off residents, and limits on mobility for those needing public assistance are only some ways in which money acts as barrier or incentive to internal migration. These various roles of money in internal migration demonstrate the ways in which financial disparities and conditions exist in tension with ideas of equal citizenship.

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citizenshipinternal migrationequalityrightsborders
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Money Matters in Migration
Policy, Participation, and Citizenship
 , pp. 317 - 335
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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