TY  - BOOK
AU  - Faist,Thomas
AU  - Fauser,Margit
AU  - Kivisto,Peter
TI  - The migration-development nexus: a transnational perspective 
T2  - Migration, diasporas and citizenship series
SN  - 9780230228573 (hardback)
AV  - JV 6033 M565 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Houndmills, Baskingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Emigración e inmigracón
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XXI
KW  - Inmigrantes
KW  - Condiciones económicas
KW  - Condiciones sociales
KW  - Minorías
KW  - Ciudadanía
KW  - Desarrollo sustentable
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The migration-development nexus: toward a transnational perspective; Tthomas Faist and Margit Fauser --; Part I; Paradigms: Methodological and Conceptual; 2; A global perspective on migration and development; Nina Glick Schiller; 3; The dialectic between uneven development and forced migration: toward a political economy framework; Raúl Delgado Wise and Humberto Márquez Covarrubias --; Part II; Organizations, Networks and States; 4; Diasporas, recovery, and development in conflict-ridden societies; Nicholas van Hear; 5; Business as usual?: urban actors and transnational investments in Accra, Ghana; Lothar Smith; 6; How receiving cities contribute to simultaneous engagements for incorporation and development; Margit Fauser; 7; A sociology of diaspora knowledge etworks; Jean-Baptiste Meyer --; Part III; Outlook; 8; Academic knowledge, policy, and the public role of social scientists; Thomas Faist; 9; Modernization, development, and migration in a skeptical age; Peter Kivisto
N2  - "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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