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The migration-development nexus : a transnational perspective / edited by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser [and] Peter Kivisto.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Migration, diasporas and citizenship
- Migration, diasporas and citizenship series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--History--21st century.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Immigrants--Economic conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Social conditions.
- Minorities--Economic conditions.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Social conditions.
- Citizenship--History.
- Citizenship.
- Sustainable development.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 228 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Baskingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Summary:
- "This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current re-discovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical perspective."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- The Migration-Development Nexus : Toward a Transnational Perspective / T. Faist and M. Fauser
- PART I: Paradigms
- Methodological and Conceptual
- A Global Perspective on Migration and Development / N. Glick Schiller
- The Dialectic between Uneven Development and Forced Migration :Toward a Political Economy Analytical Framework / R. Delgado Wise and H. Márquez Covarrubias
- PART II: Organizations, Networks and States : Diasporas, Recovery, and Development in Conflict-Ridden Societies / N. van Hear
- Business as Usual? : Urban Actors and Transnational Investments in Accra, Ghana / L. Smith
- How Receiving Cities Contribute to Simultaneous Engagements for Incorporation and Development / M. Fauser
- A Sociology of Diaspora Knowledge Networks / J. B. Meyer
- PART III: Outlook
- Academic Knowledge, Public Policy, and the Role of Social Scientists / T. Faist
- Modernization, Development, and Migration in a Skeptical Age / P. Kivisto.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230228573
- 0230228577
- OCLC:
- 692287973
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