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



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Titolo: The migration-development nexus : a transnational perspective / / edited by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Peter Kivisto Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Basingstoke [U.K.], : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed. 2011.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
Disciplina: 325
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Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration
Economic development
Transnationalism - Economic aspects
Classificazione: SOC006000SOC007000SOC015000SOC026000
Altri autori: FaistThomas  
FauserMargit  
KivistoPeter <1948->  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: The migration-development nexus  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-12448-3
9786613124487
9780230305694
0-230-30569-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808139003321
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Serie: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, . 2662-2602