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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808139003321

Titolo

The migration-development nexus : a transnational perspective / / edited by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Peter Kivisto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke [U.K.], : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

ISBN

1-283-12448-3

9786613124487

9780230305694

0-230-30569-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Migration, diasporas and citizenship series

Classificazione

SOC006000SOC007000SOC015000SOC026000

Altri autori (Persone)

FaistThomas

FauserMargit

KivistoPeter <1948->

Disciplina

325

338.9

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

Economic development

Transnationalism - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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.