LEADER 04695nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910823724003321 005 20221005193659.0 010 $a0-8014-7599-6 010 $a0-8014-6204-5 010 $a0-8014-6224-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462245 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036262 035 $a(OCoLC)732957094 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468013 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535514 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306913 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535514 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10523477 035 $a(PQKB)11715951 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28819 035 $a(DE-B1597)480066 035 $a(OCoLC)979630551 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462245 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138134 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468013 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL760187 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138134 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036262 100 $a20100311d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreative state$b[electronic resource] $eforty years of migration and development policy in Morocco and Mexico /$fNatasha Iskander 210 $aIthaca $cILR Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (389 p.) 300 $aFirst printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2010. 311 $a1-336-28901-5 311 $a0-8014-4872-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aAt the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had policies in place. Morocco and Mexico featured prominently as sources of "best practices" in this area, with tailor-made financial instruments that brought migrants into the banking system, captured remittances for national development projects, fostered partnerships with emigrants for infrastructure design and provision, hosted transnational forums for development planning, and emboldened cross-border political lobbies. In Creative State, Natasha Iskander chronicles how these innovative policies emerged and evolved over forty years. She reveals that the Moroccan and Mexican policies emulated as models of excellence were not initially devised to link emigration to development, but rather were deployed to strengthen both governments' domestic hold on power. The process of policy design, however, was so iterative and improvisational that neither the governments nor their migrant constituencies ever predicted, much less intended, the ways the new initiatives would gradually but fundamentally redefine nationhood, development, and citizenship. Morocco's and Mexico's experiences with migration and development policy demonstrate that far from being a prosaic institution resistant to change, the state can be a remarkable site of creativity, an essential but often overlooked component of good governance. 606 $aEmigrant remittances$zMorocco 606 $aEmigrant remittances$zMexico 607 $aMorocco$xEmigration and immigration$xEconomic aspects 607 $aMexico$xEmigration and immigration$xEconomic aspects 607 $aMorocco$xEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy 607 $aMexico$xEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy 607 $aMorocco$xEconomic policy 607 $aMexico$xEconomic policy 615 0$aEmigrant remittances 615 0$aEmigrant remittances 676 $a325/.264 700 $aIskander$b Natasha N$g(Natasha Nefertiti),$f1972-$01660207 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823724003321 996 $aCreative state$94015263 997 $aUNINA