The relationship between migration and development is becoming an
important field of study, yet the fundamentals - analytical tools,
conceptual framework, political stance - are not being called into
question or dialogue. This volume provides a valuable alternative
perspective to the current literature as the contributors explore
the contradictory discourses about migration and the role these
discourses play in perpetuating inequality and a global regime of
militarized surveillance. The assumptions surrounding the
assymetrical transfers of resources that accompany migration are
deeply skewed and continue to reflect the interests of the most
powerful states and the institutions that serve their interests.
Those who seek to address the morass of development failure,
vitriolic attacks on immigrants, or sanguine views about migrant
agency are challenged by this volume to put aside their
methodological nationalism and pursue alternative pathways out of
the quagmire of poverty, violence, and fear that is enveloping the
globe.
Nina Glick Schiller is Director of the Research Institute for
Cosmopolitan Cultures and Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester and the founding editor of the journal
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Thomas Faist is Professor of Transnational and Development
Studies in the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University. He
serves on the editorial board of The Sociological Quarterly, Ethnic
and Racial Studies, Migration Letters, and South Asian
Diaspora.
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