Kao-Lee Liaw
Professor, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University.
Ph.D., Clark
Dr. Liaw’s recent research interests are focused on the immigration and internal migration processes of the United States, Japan, and Canada. He is a long-term collaborator of William Frey.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and Ishikawa, Y. 2008. "Destination choice of the 1995-2000 immigrants to Japan: salient features and multivariate explanation." Environment and Planning A, 40(4): 806-830. DOI:10.1068/a39187. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and William H. Frey. 2007. "Multivariate Explanation of the 1985-1990 and 1995-2000 Destination Choices of Newly Arrived Immigrants in the United States: The Beginning of a New Trend." Population, Space and Place, 13(5): 377-399. DOI:10.1002/psp.459. Licensed Access.
Xu, L., and Kao-Lee Liaw. 2006. "Initial Destination Choices of Skilled-worker Immigrants from South Asia to Canada: Assessment of the Relative Importance of Explanatory Factors." Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 29(2): 299-320.
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and Lei Xu. 2005. "Problematic Post-landing Migration of the Immigrants in Canada: From 1980-82 through 1992-95." Journal of Population Studies (Taiwan), 31, 105-152.
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and M.Z. Qi. 2004. "Lifetime Interprovincial Migration in Canada: Looking Beyond Short-Run Fluctuations." Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien, 48(2): 168-190.
Inoue, T., and Kao-Lee Liaw. 2004. "Life-course perspective on some distinctive features of migration from non-metropolitan prefectures in Japan." Georgraphical Review of Japan, 77(12): 765-782.
Chapters
Frey, William H., and Kao-Lee Liaw. 2005. "Migration within the United States: Role of Race and Ethnicity." In Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2005 edited by G. Burtless and J. Rothenberg Pack. The Brookings Institution Press. Abstract.
PSC Reports
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and William H. Frey. 2009. "Choices of Metropolitan Destinations by the 1995-2000 New Immigrants Born in Mexico and India: Characterization and Multivariate Explanation." PSC Research Report No. 09-687. August 2009. Abstract. PDF.
Frey, William H., and Kao-Lee Liaw. 2005. "Interstate Migration of Hispanics, Asians and Blacks: Cultural Constraints and Middle Class Flight." PSC Research Report No. 05-575. May 2005. Abstract. PDF.
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