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 Sherman Library  JV6033 .M565 2011    AVAILABLE  
Title The migration-development nexus : a transnational perspective / edited by Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Peter Kivisto.
OCLC 692287973
ISBN 9780230228573 (hardback)
0230228577 (hardback)
Publisher Houndmills, Baskingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Description xiv, 228 pages ; 23 cm.
LC Subject heading/s Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century.
Immigrants -- Economic conditions.
Immigrants -- Social conditions.
Minorities -- Economic conditions.
Minorities -- Social conditions.
Citizenship -- History.
Sustainable development.
Other
Subject heading/s		 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."-- Provided by publisher.
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