Calvin Goldscheider (Ph.D., 1964) is a professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University and a Faculty Associate of the Population Studies and Training Center.

• Foreword -- Internal Migration-Types, Stratification and Assimilation -- Metropolitan Migration in Developed Countries: A Cross-National Data Base -- Migration and Job Mobility: Some Contemporary Lessons from Sidney Goldstein’s Patterns of Mobility -- Circulation as a Drought-coping Strategy in Rural Mali* -- Town Residents and Rural-Town Migration in Inner Mongolia, People’s Republic of China -- Ethnic Inequality and Social Structural Assimilation: The Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China -- International Migration and Redistribution Policies -- Circular Mobility, Migrant Communities, and Policy Restrictions: Unauthorized Flows from Mexico -- Sudanese Emigration to Saudi Arabia: Partial Modernization and Development Bureaucratization -- Challenges Confronting South Africa’s Separate Development: The Legacy of Segregation and Displaced Urbanization -- Population Redistribution and State Policies: A Brazilian Perspective -- International Migration: Issues and Research Needs* -- Population Composition and Structure -- The Demographic Development of the Soviet Nationalities: Post Mortem -- A Regional Shift in Population: Explaining Post-World War II Trends and Projections Influencing the Industrial Belt of the U. S -- Population Aging in Japan -- Contributors*