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The Migration-Development Nexus : A Transnational Perspective / by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Peter Kivisto.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, 2662-2610
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development.
- Human geography.
- International economic relations.
- Race.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Development Studies.
- Human Geography.
- International Political Economy'.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Human Migration.
- Local Subjects:
- Development Studies.
- Human Geography.
- International Political Economy'.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Human Migration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figure; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 The Migration-Development Nexus: Toward a Transnational Perspective; Part I: Paradigms - Methodological and Conceptual; 2 A Global Perspective on Migration and Development; 3 The Dialectic between Uneven Development and Forced Migration: Toward a Political Economy Framework; Part II: Organizations, Networks and States; 4 Diasporas, Recovery and Development in Conflict-ridden Societies; 5 Business as Usual? Urban Actors and Transnational Investments in Accra, Ghana
- 6 How Receiving Cities Contribute to Simultaneous Engagements for Incorporation and Development7 A Sociology of Diaspora Knowledge Networks; Part III: Outlook; 8 Academic Knowledge, Policy and the Public Role of Social Scientists; 9 Modernization, Development and Migration in a Sceptical Age; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613124487
- 9781283124485
- 1283124483
- 9780230305694
- 0230305695
- OCLC:
- 728642705
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