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The Migration-Development Nexus Thomas Faist

The Migration-Development Nexus By Thomas Faist

The Migration-Development Nexus by Thomas Faist


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Thisbook examinescurrent policy discussions around the migration-development nexus andsubjects 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.

The Migration-Development Nexus Summary

The Migration-Development Nexus: A Transnational Perspective by Thomas Faist

Thisbook examinescurrent policy discussions around the migration-development nexus andsubjects 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.

About Thomas Faist

HUMBERTO MARQUEZ COVARRUBIAS Research Professor in the Academic Unit of Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico RAUL DELGADO WISE Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Development Studies at the University of Zacatecas, Mexico and Executive Director of the International Migration and Development Network THOMAS FAIST Professor of Transnational Relations and Sociology of Development at the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany MARGIT FAUSER Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany NINA GLICK SCHILLER Director of the Cosmopolitan Cultures Institute and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK PETER KIVISTO Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought and Professor and Chair of Sociology at Augustana College, USA JEAN-BAPTISTE MEYER Senior Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France and is associated with the doctoral programs of the University of Montpellier 1, France and of the Facultad Latino Americana de Ciencias Sociales in Buenos Aires LOTHAR SMITH Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Geography, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands NICHOLAS VAN HEAR Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), at the University of Oxford, UK

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors The Migration-Development Nexus: Toward a Transnational Perspective; T.Faist & M.Fauser PART I: Paradigms Methodologicaland Conceptual A Global Perspective on Migration and Development; N.Glick Schiller The Dialectic between Uneven Developmentand Forced Migration:Toward aPolitical Economy Analytical Framework; R.Delgado Wise & H.Marquez Covarrubias PART II: Organizations, Networksand States Diasporas, Recovery,and Developmentin Conflict-Ridden Societies; N.van Hear Businessas Usual? Urban Actorsand Transnational Investmentsin Accra, Ghana; L.Smith How Receiving Cities Contributeto Simultaneous Engagementsfor Incorporationand Development; M.Fauser A Sociologyof Diaspora Knowledge Networks; J.B Meyer PART III: Outlook Academic Knowledge, Public Policy,and theRole ofSocial Scientists; T.Faist Modernization, Development, and Migration in a Skeptical Age; P.Kivisto

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NPB9780230228573
9780230228573
0230228577
The Migration-Development Nexus: A Transnational Perspective by Thomas Faist
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2011-04-28
228
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