Creative state : forty years of migration and development policy in Morocco and Mexico / Natasha Iskander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iskander, Natasha N. (Natasha Nefertiti), 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigrant remittances.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Morocco--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Morocco.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Mexico.

Morocco--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Emigrant remittances--Morocco.

Emigrant remittances--Mexico.

Morocco--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Mexico--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction : interpretive engagement in Morocco and Mexico

Discretionary state seeing : emigration policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963

Reaching out : beginning a conversation with Moroccan emigrants, 1963-1973

Relational awareness and controlling relationships : Moroccan state engagement with Moroccan emigrants, 1974-1990

Practice and power : emigrants and development in the Moroccan Souss

Process as resource : two kings and the politics of rural development

The reluctant conversationalist : the Mexican government's discontinuous engagement with Mexican Americans, 1968-2000

From interpretation to political movement : state-migrant engagement in Zacatecas

The relationship between "seeing" and "interpreting" : the Mexican government's interpretive engagement with Mexican migrants

Conclusion : creating the creative state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801448720

0801448727

9780801475993

0801475996

OCLC:

606051680