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
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| Pubblicazione: | Basingstoke [U.K.], : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 325 |
| 338.9 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Emigration and immigration |
| Economic development | |
| Transnationalism - Economic aspects | |
| Classificazione: | SOC006000SOC007000SOC015000SOC026000 |
| Altri autori: |
FaistThomas
FauserMargit
KivistoPeter <1948->
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, . 2662-2602