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to eastern provinces and from rural areas to urban. It is believed that education and internal migration become two
more important population dimensions for China population dynamics and distribution in the future. In this
research, we use the micro-sample data from China Census 2010 to analyze the education difference of the internal
migration and its influence on China's population distribution. We also analyze how the current internal migration
education pattern will shape the future China population dynamics.

396 Spatial Structure of Youth Migration in Indonesia: Does Education Matter?

Meirina Ayumi Malamassam

School of Demography, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Categories

5. Population Mobility (Internal and International Migration, including Refugees) and Urbanization

Abstract

It is broadly understood that migration works in a selective nature, particularly by age and level of education.
Moreover, variations in youth migration’s intensity by educational attainment may signify human capital discrepancy
across regions. By using the multiplicative component method to analyse data from the 2000 and 2010 Indonesia
Population Census, this study examines the spatial structure of interregional youth migration by highlighting
migrants’ educational attainment. The findings show that the spatial flows of young Indonesians are dominated by
those with a low level of educational background, but the proportion of tertiary degree migrants has significantly
improved over ten years. Also, the spatial structures of low educated youth migration are geographically
unbalanced with concentrated flows from rural to metropolitan regions. In contrast, the patterns of highly educated
migration show noticeable ratios of counter-urbanisation in the recent census. Furthermore, the importance of
regional connectivity in the spatial interaction is increased as the migrants' educational attainment improved.
Meanwhile, the cultural similarity is indicated to have a more prominent role in the spatial structure of low educated
migration. The findings suggest an uneven spatial structure of youth migration by educational background plays a
part in human capital redistribution across regions in Indonesia.

1267 Irregular and Vulnerable Western Migrants in Thailand: Challenges and
Responses

Sakkarin Niyomsilpa, Sureeporn Punpuing

Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhonpathom, Thailand