The Migration-Development Nexus

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Migration–Development Nexus: Toward a Transnational Perspective

   1. The Migration–Development Nexus: Toward a Transnational Perspective

      • Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser

      Pages 1-26

3. Paradigms — Methodological and Conceptual

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. A Global Perspective on Migration and Development

      • Nina Glick Schiller

      Pages 29-56

   3. The Dialectic between Uneven Development and Forced Migration: Toward a Political Economy Framework

      • Raúl Delgado Wise, Humberto Márquez Covarrubias

      Pages 57-82

4. Organizations, Networks and States

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Diasporas, Recovery and Development in Conflict-ridden Societies

      • Nicholas Van Hear

      Pages 85-103

   3. Business as Usual? Urban Actors and Transnational Investments in Accra, Ghana

      • Lothar Smith

      Pages 104-133

   4. How Receiving Cities Contribute to Simultaneous Engagements for Incorporation and Development

      • Margit Fauser

      Pages 134-158

   5. A Sociology of Diaspora Knowledge Networks

      • Jean-Baptiste Meyer

      Pages 159-181

5. Outlook

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Academic Knowledge, Policy and the Public Role of Social Scientists

      • Thomas Faist

      Pages 185-203

   3. Modernization, Development and Migration in a Sceptical Age

      • Peter Kivisto

      Pages 204-224

6. Back Matter

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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.

• conflict
• economy
• migration
• Nation
• organization
• Policy
• political economy
• sociology
• Transnational

• Bielefeld University, Germany

  Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser

• Augustana College, USA

  Peter Kivisto

HUMBERTO MÁRQUEZ COVARRUBIAS Research Professor in the Academic Unit of Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico RAÚL 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 Développement, 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

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