The Migration-Development Nexus

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.

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.

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.Márquez 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