The migration-development nexus
Subtitle: a transnational perspective
By: edited by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Peter Kivisto
Series: Migration, diasporas and citizenship series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Baskingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780230228573
Subjects: Citizenship; Sustainable development; Immigrants; Minorities; Emigration and immigration; Economic conditions; Social conditions; History
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: The migration-development nexus: toward a transnational perspective  -- Tthomas Faist and Margit Fauser -- Part I.; title: Paradigms: Methodological and Conceptual: -- 2.; title: A global perspective on migration and development  -- Nina Glick Schiller; -- 3.; title: The dialectic between uneven development and forced migration: toward a political economy framework  -- Raúl Delgado Wise and Humberto Márquez Covarrubias -- Part II.; title: Organizations, Networks and States: -- 4.; title: Diasporas, recovery, and development in conflict-ridden societies  -- Nicholas van Hear; -- 5.; title: Business as usual?: urban actors and transnational investments in Accra, Ghana  -- Lothar Smith; -- 6.; title: How receiving cities contribute to simultaneous engagements for incorporation and development  -- Margit Fauser; -- 7.; title: A sociology of diaspora knowledge etworks  -- Jean-Baptiste Meyer -- Part III.; title: Outlook: -- 8.; title: Academic knowledge, policy, and the public role of social scientists  -- Thomas Faist; -- 9.; title: Modernization, development, and migration in a skeptical age -- Peter Kivisto.