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Overview

Ronald Skeldon is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies, Global and Planetary Change, Modeling and Simulation, as well as General Health Professions.

The main topics of Ronald Skeldon's work include Migration and Labor Dynamics, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Urban and Rural Development Challenges, COVID-19 impact on air quality, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, and Global Health Care Issues.

Frequent co-authors in Skeldon's publications are:

  • Marie McAuliffe
  • Luisa Feline Freier
  • Jenna Blower
  • Russell King
  • Tanja Bastia

Skeldon's publications have appeared in several venues, most notably:

  • Population Studies
  • World Migration Report
  • New Zealand Economic Papers
  • Migración y Desarrollo

A selection of their recent papers includes:

  • "Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries" (2022, Population Studies)
  • "5 The Great Disrupter: COVID-19's Impact on Migration, Mobility and Migrants Globally" (2022, World Migration Report)
  • "Moving towards the centre or the exit? Migration in population studies and in Population Studies 1996-2021" (2021, Population Studies)
  • "Migration, climate change and the futures of global population redistribution" (2024, New Zealand Economic Papers)
  • "Los límites de la política migratoria" (2022, Migración y Desarrollo)

Best Publications

  • Migration and Development: A Global Perspective

    Ronald Skeldon

  • ‘Mind the Gap!’ Integrating Approaches to Internal and International Migration

    Russell King;Ronald Skeldon

  • World class? An investigation of globalisation, difference and international student mobility

    Allan M Findlay;Russell King;Fiona M Smith;Alistair Geddes

  • International Migration as a Tool in Development Policy: A Passing Phase?

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Population Mobility in Developing Countries

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Migration and poverty

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Skilled International Migration and the Global City: A Study of Expatriates in Hong Kong

    A. M. Findlay;F. L. N. Li;A. J. Jowett;R. Skeldon

  • Interlinkages between internal and international migration and development in the Asian region

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese

    Ronald Skeldon;Xiaohu (Shawn) Wang

  • Migrating to Learn and Learning to Migrate: A Study of the Experiences and Intentions of International Student Migrants

    F. L. N. Li;A. M. Findlay;A. J. Jowett;R. Skeldon

  • Trafficking: a perspective from Asia.

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Migration and Development

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Quantifying International Migration: A Database of Bilateral Migrant Stocks

    Christopher R. Parsons;Ronald Skeldon;Terrie L. Walmsley;L. Alan Winters;L. Alan Winters;L. Alan Winters

  • Quantifying international migration : a database of bilateral migrant stocks

    Christopher Parsons;Ronald Skeldon;Terrie Walmsley;L. Winters

  • Of Skilled Migration, Brain Drains and Policy Responses*

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Demographics and Climate Change: Future Trends and their Policy Implications for Migration

    Richard Black;Dominic Kniveton;Ronald Skeldon;David Coppard

  • Migration from China

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Rural-to-urban migration and its implications for poverty alleviation.

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Going Round in Circles: Circular Migration, Poverty Alleviation and Marginality

    Ronald Skeldon

  • Internal and international migration: bridging the theoretical divide

    Russell King;Ronald Skeldon;Julie Vullnetari

  • Migration and migration policy in Asia: a synthesis of selected cases

    Ronald Skeldon

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Black
Richard Black University of Birmingham
Russell King
Russell King University of Sussex
Allan Findlay
Allan Findlay University of St Andrews
Anne E. Green
Anne E. Green University of Birmingham
Christopher A. Parsons
Christopher A. Parsons University of Western Australia
Dominic Kniveton
Dominic Kniveton University of Sussex

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