The migration-development nexus : a transnational perspective

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The migration-development nexus : a transnational perspective

edited by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser and Peter Kivisto

(Migration, diasporas and citizenship)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors The Migration-Development Nexus: Toward a Transnational Perspective
  • T.Faist & M.Fauser PART I: Paradigms - Methodological and Conceptual A Global Perspective on Migration and Development
  • N.Glick Schiller The Dialectic between Uneven Development and Forced Migration: Toward a Political Economy Analytical Framework
  • R.Delgado Wise & H.Marquez Covarrubias PART II: Organizations, Networks and States Diasporas, Recovery, and Development in Conflict-Ridden Societies
  • N.van Hear Business as Usual? Urban Actors and Transnational Investments in Accra, Ghana
  • L.Smith How Receiving Cities Contribute to Simultaneous Engagements for Incorporation and Development
  • M.Fauser A Sociology of Diaspora Knowledge Networks
  • J.B Meyer PART III: Outlook Academic Knowledge, Public Policy, and the Role of Social Scientists
  • T.Faist Modernization, Development, and Migration in a Skeptical Age
  • P.Kivisto

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