Migration and economy : global and local dynamics
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Migration and economy : global and local dynamics
(Society for Economic Anthropology monographs, v. 22)
AltaMira Press, c2005
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"Published in cooperation with the Society for Economic Anthropology"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Trager and her coauthors focus on migration not as a single event but as a dynamic process that responds to and is shaped by broader economic, cultural and social forces. Individual essays consider issues of international and internal migration, of voluntary migration and forced movements due to civil conflicts and environmental degradation, and of macro-level forces and micro-level institutions. The authors investigate a wide variety of types of mobility, describe transnational and multilocal networks through which remittances and other flows take place; focus on migrants as active agents; and examine the impacts of ethnicity and assimilation. They offer original studies on Mexico, Puerto Rico, West Africa, Kazakstan, and Mozambique. This new volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in development anthropology, migration studies, and international planning and policy.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Dynamics of Migration Part 2 Part I. Migration, Households, and Stratification Chapter 3 1. Unbound Households: Trajectories of Labor, Migration, and Transnational Livelihoods in (and from) Southern Puerto Rico Chapter 4 2. Multilocality and Social Stratification in Kita, Mali Chapter 5 3. Non-migrant Households in Oaxaca, Mexico: Why Some People Stay While Others Leave Chapter 6 4. Migration and Risk-Taking: A Case Study from Kazakstan Chapter 7 5. Migratory Modernity and the Cosmology of Consumption in Cote d'Ivoire Part 8 Part II. Remittances and Beyond Chapter 9 6. When Houses Provide More than Shelter: Analyzing the Uses of Remittances within their Socio-cultural Context Chapter 10 7. Women Migrants and Hometown Linkages in Nigeria: Status, Economic Roles and Contributions to Community Development Chapter 11 8. The Moral Economy of Non-Return Among Socially-Diverted Labor Migrants from Portugal and Mozambique Chapter 12 9. "Direct to the Poor" Revisted: Migrant Remittances and Development Assistance
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