The Migration-Development Nexus A Transnational Perspective [Paperback]

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.M?rquez 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.KivistoHUMBERTO M?RQUEZ COVARRUBIAS Research Professor in the Academic Unit of Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, MexicoRA?L 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 NetworkTHOMAS FAIST Professor of Transnational Relations and Sociology of Development at the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University, GermanyMARGIT FAUSER Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University, GermanyNINA GLICK SCHILLER Director of the Cosmopolitan Cultures Institute and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UKPETER KIVISTO lӃ