The migration-development nexus : a transnational perspective /
edited by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Peter Kivisto.
- Houndmills, Baskingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- xiv, 228 pages ; 23 cm.
- Migration, diasporas and citizenship series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The migration-development nexus: toward a transnational perspective / Paradigms: Methodological and Conceptual: A global perspective on migration and development / The dialectic between uneven development and forced migration: toward a political economy framework / Organizations, Networks and States: Diasporas, recovery, and development in conflict-ridden societies / Business as usual?: urban actors and transnational investments in Accra, Ghana / How receiving cities contribute to simultaneous engagements for incorporation and development / A sociology of diaspora knowledge etworks / Outlook: Academic knowledge, policy, and the public role of social scientists / Modernization, development, and migration in a skeptical age / Tthomas Faist and Margit Fauser -- Nina Glick Schiller; Raúl Delgado Wise and Humberto Márquez Covarrubias -- Nicholas van Hear; Lothar Smith; Margit Fauser; Jean-Baptiste Meyer -- Thomas Faist; Peter Kivisto. 1. Part I. 2. 3. Part II. 4. 5. 6. 7. Part III. 8. 9.
"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."--
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