New Perspectives on International Migration and Development

✍ Scribed by Jeronimo Cortina (editor); Enrique Ochoa-Reza (editor)

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through pressing, current case studies, contributors examine the ubiquitous interplay among migration, development, culture, human rights, and government, all toward advancing more effective solutions to international migration issues.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledg ments
Introduction
Part 1. Migration, development, states, culture, and human rights
Introduction
1. Development and migration: Historical trends and future research
2. The impact of migration on development: Explicating the role of the state
3. Bringing culture back in: Opportunities and challenges for the migration- development nexus
4. Protecting the rights of migrant workers
Part 2. Migration, development, children, and women
Introduction
5. Family and school reconfiguration: The case of ecuadorian highland migration to Spain
6. Women, children, and migration: Developmental considerations
Part 3. Migration and development: Country experiences
Introduction
7. Migration and development: Lessons from the moroccan experience
8. The southern crossroads: Human mobility, governance, and development in south Africa
9. Migration between the Asia- Pacific and Australia: A development perspective
10. Asian migration to the united states: Development implications for Asia
11. Indian migrants to the gulf: The kerala experience
Notes
Index