Moving Within Borders : Addressing the Potentials and Risks of Mass Migrations in Developing Countries / / William Ascher and Shane Joshua Barter

• Autore: Ascher William
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Macmillan Palgrave, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.8091724
• Soggetto topico: Migration, Internal - Developing countries
• Soggetto geografico: Developing countries Emigration and immigration Government policy
• Persona (resp. second.): BarterShane Joshua
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- References -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Success and Failure -- A Roadmap -- References -- 2 Understanding Internal Migration -- Conceptualizing Internal Migration -- Voluntary and Involuntary Internal Migration -- State-Initiated, State-Managed, and Unmanaged Migration -- Victims and Oppressors -- Fluid Categories -- From Holism to Fragmentation in Studying Internal Migration, and Hopefully Back -- Internal and International Migration -- References -- Part I Stakeholders: The State, Migrants, and Hosts -- 3 The Primacy of the State -- The State's Discretion -- The Complexity of the State -- State Motives -- Economic Motives -- Political Motives -- Socioeconomic Motives -- Ecological Motives -- Psychology of State Interactions -- Overlap of Identifications -- Overgeneralization -- Feelings of Superiority -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 The Many Levels of the State -- Political Decentralization -- Administrative Decentralization -- Fiscal Decentralization -- Clashing Governments -- Internal Migration Agencies and Offices -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Sympathy for the State: Coping with Internal Migration -- Uncertainty -- Volume -- Location -- Eligibility -- Intergroup Relations -- Vulnerability of State Officials -- Limits of Capacity -- Dilemmas -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Migrants in Train: State-Initiated and Managed Migrations -- State-Coerced Migration -- Forced, But Not by the State: Evacuation and Resettlement -- Voluntary State-Managed Migrants: Clients and Pioneers -- The Clients -- The Pioneers -- Conclusions -- References -- 7 Unsponsored Migrants: The Enterprising -- The Land Hungry -- The Entrepreneurial Land Hungry -- Resource Extractors -- Merchant Migrants -- The Urbanizers -- Profiles of Urban Migrants: Bihari Migrants in Mumbai. ; Deterrence and Expulsion of Urbanizers -- Mechanisms of Exclusion -- The Edges of Urbanization -- Upward Mobility and Remittances -- Conclusions -- References -- 8 Unsponsored Migrants: The Expelled -- Development IDPs -- Conflict IDPs -- Disaster IDPs -- Creating Migrant Communities -- Conclusions -- References -- 9 Room to Let? Host Community Perspectives -- Migrant-Origin Communities -- Solidarity or Solubility: The Importance of Host Cleavages -- Exchange Perspectives -- Welcome to the Jungle: Rural Host Communities -- Welcome to the Big City: Urban Host Communities -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II What Can Go Wrong -- 10 Migratory Deprivations -- Pre-migration Contexts -- Material Deprivations -- The Ambiguity of Property -- Promising Much, Delivering Little -- Economic Competition -- Exceeding Carrying Capacity -- Political Deprivations -- Host Political Deprivations -- Migrant Political Deprivations -- Generating Political Difference -- Sociocultural Deprivations -- Cultural & -- Deferential Deprivations for Hosts -- Cultural and Deferential Deprivations for Migrants -- Conclusions -- References -- 11 Migratory Conflicts -- Host Violence: Sons of the Soil -- Migrant Violence: Settler Conflicts -- Security Deprivations: Processes of Migratory Violence -- Roles of the State -- Conclusions -- References -- 12 State Failures -- Some Caveats -- Failures of Planning -- Failure to Collect Information -- Failure to Provide Information -- Failure to Plan Resettlement -- Failure to Estimate the Volume of Migration -- Failure to Support Material Well-Being -- Failure to Manage Property Rights -- Failure to Recognize Development Opportunities -- Political Inclusion and Partnerships -- Failure to Recognize Civic Rights -- Failure to Partner with Non-state Actors -- Sociocultural Factors -- Failure to Consider Compatibility. ; Failure to Respect Migrant/Host Cultures -- Migratory Insecurity -- Failure to Provide Order -- Failure to Remain Neutral -- Conclusions -- References -- Part III What to Do About It -- 13 State Accountability: Theory, Evasion, and Potential Remedies -- Degrees of Accountability -- Identifying the Reasons and Mechanisms for Evading Accountability -- Self-Accountability Obstacles -- Low Expectations, Low Accountability -- Blaming Others -- Uncertainty of Outcomes -- Ambiguity of State Obligations -- Ambiguity of the Degree of Coercion -- Ambiguity of International Norms -- Ambiguous Obligations to Host Communities -- The Temporal Dimension of Accountability -- Preempting the State's Evasion of Accountability -- Spreading Accountability as an Incentive for Co-management -- Conclusions -- References -- 14 State Responses and Best Practices -- Restricting Internal Migration -- Preventing Conflicts -- Reforming State-led Migration -- Rewarding Host Communities -- Resolving Conflicts -- Separation -- Integration -- Conclusions -- References -- 15 Societal Responses -- Give Me Shelter: Religion in Internal Migration -- Conflict IDPs -- Disaster IDPs -- Shortcomings of Faith-Based Migratory Aid -- Making Migration Work: Civil Society Advocacy and Assistance -- Come Together: Traditional Leaders and Social Integration -- Conclusions -- References -- 16 The International Community: A Brief for International Involvement -- What the International Community can do -- Increase Support for IDPs -- Direct Financial Resources to Low-Income Rural Areas or Small Towns -- Cooperate with Governments to Reform Laws, Regulations, and Practices -- Support Programs to Reduce Technical Barriers to Work and Social Assistance -- Support Infrastructure Development to Minimize Displacement and Socioeconomic Distress. ; Facilitate Income-generating Opportunities for IDPs Confined to Camps -- Managing Difficult Relations with the State -- Press for Greater Acknowledgment and Support of IDPs -- Defend Just Compensation for Infrastructure IDPs -- Offsett Biases in Favor of Migrants -- Protect Against Problematic Displacements -- Encourage Recognition of IDP Status -- Pressure for Reforms -- Overcome State Restrictions on Information -- Addressing the Challenges to Effective International Contributions -- Uncertainty Regarding Future Conflict -- Collective Action Weaknesses -- Cooperation Among International Organizations -- Concern over the Permanence of Resettlement -- Conclusions: Challenges of Coordination -- References -- 17 Lessons in Safeguarding the Benefits of Internal Migration -- Lesson One: Internal Migration can Benefit All -- Lesson Two: What can go Wrong -- Lesson Three: The Primacy of the State -- Lesson Four: Governing Internal Migration -- Lesson Five: Vertical Coordination -- Lesson Six: State Officials Evade Accountability -- Lesson Seven: The Overlapping Forms of Internal Migration -- Lesson Eight: The Centrality of Ambiguity -- Lesson Nine: Fair Compensation for the Displaced -- Lesson Ten: Avoid "Warehousing" IDPs -- Lesson Eleven: Attention to Host Communities -- Lesson Twelve: Do Not Overlook Sending Communities -- Lesson Thirteen: The State is Not Alone -- Lesson Fourteen: Bring Critics In -- Lesson Fifteen: Targeted Conditionality -- Lesson Sixteen: Migration is Only the Beginning -- Final Thoughts -- References -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Moving Within Borders
• ISBN: 3-031-37549-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910800120303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Politics, economics, and inclusive development.