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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Migration, diasporas and citizenship seriesPublication details: Houndmills, Baskingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Description: xiv, 228 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230228573
  • 0230228577
  • 9781349310142 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9 22
LOC classification:
  • JV6033 .M565 2011
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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Books Books HIPSIR Library <strong>Processing Center:<br>This book is currently being catalogued by the Deputy Librarian.</strong> JV<br>Colonies and colonization.<br>Emigration and immigration.<br>International migration JV 6033 MIG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Donation for MSD 115730
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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.

"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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