The Migration-Development Nexus : A Transnational Perspective / / by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Peter Kivisto

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963513403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011
• ISBN: 9786613124487; 9781283124485; 1283124483; 9780230305694; 0230305695
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2011.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Collana: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, , 2662-2610
• Classificazione: SOC006000SOC007000SOC015000SOC026000
• Altri autori (Persone): FaistThomas; FauserMargit; KivistoPeter <1948->
• Disciplina: 325; 338.9
• Soggetti: Economic development; Human geography; International economic relations; Race; Emigration and immigration; Development Studies; Human Geography; International Political Economy'; Race and Ethnicity Studies; Human Migration
• 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.