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New Trends in Micronesian Migration: FSM Migration to Guam and the Marianas, 1990-1993
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Human MigrationEast Asian StudiesGlobal MigrationInternal MigrationSocial StratificationPolynesian StudiesMicronesian MigrationSurvey DataLabor MigrationEconomic ImpactLanguage StudiesPublic HealthMigration PolicyEconomicsFsm MigrationEast Asian LanguagesPopulation MigrationBrain DrainNew TrendsInternational Population MovementNorthern Mariana IslandsAnthropologyDemographyImmigration
On the basis of...survey data for Guam and the CNMI [Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands] this article will provide a comparative view of the characteristics of the FSM [Federated States of Micronesia] migrant populations and their economic well-being in these two destinations. Moreover this article offers for the first time a comparison between the educational attainments of migrants and those of the population still resident in the FSM in order to establish whether the vaunted `brain drain is reality or myth. Finally drawing on data from the 1994 FSM census the article also quantifies the economic impact of this migration on the FSM in the form of remittances. (EXCERPT)