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How do the United Nations, international organizations,
governments, corporate actors and a wide variety of civil society
organizations and regional and global trade unions perceive the
root causes of migration, global inequality and options for
sustainable development? This is one of the most pertinent
political questions of the 21st century. This comprehensive
collection examines the development of an emerging global
governance on migration with the focus on spaces, roles, strategies
and alliance-making of a composite transnational civil society
engaged in issues of rights and the protection of migrants and
their families. It reveals the need to strengthen networking and
convergence among movements that adopt different entry points to
the same struggle, from fighting 'managed' migration to contesting
corporate control of food and land. The authors examine the
opportunities and challenges faced by civil society in its
endeavour to promote a rights-based approach within international
and intergovernmental fora engaged in setting up a global compact
for the management of migration, such as the Global Forum for
Migration and Development, and in other global policy spaces.
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a CC-BY 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367147266_oachapter1.pdf
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a CC-BY 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367147266_oachapter3.pdf
Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a CC-BY 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367147266_oachapter6.pdf
Since the year 2000 Latin America has been at the forefront of a
series of diverse experiments with alternative forms, pathways and
models of economic development and at the cutting edge of the
international theoretical and political debates that surround these
experiments. Reframing Latin American Development brings together
leading scholars from Latin America and elsewhere to debate and
discuss the current practice and futures of the Latin American
experience with alternative forms of development over the last
period and particularly since the end of neoliberal dominance. The
models discussed range from the neo developmentalism approach of
growth with equity, to the Buen Vivir (How to Live Well) philosophy
advanced by the indigenous communities of the Andean highlands and
implemented in the national development plans of the governments of
Bolivia and Ecuador. Other models of alternative development
include the so-called socialism of the twenty-first century and
diverse proposals for constructing a social and solidarity economy
and other models of local development based on the agency of
community-based grassroots organizations and social movements.
Reframing Latin American Development will be of particular interest
to researchers, teachers and students in the fields of
international development, Latin American studies and the
economics, politics and sociology of development.
Written by two leading scholars, this book provides a detailed
analysis of Mexico's political economy. James M. Cypher and Raul
Delgado Wise begin with an examination of Mexico's pivotal economic
crisis of the 1980s and the consequent turn toward an export-led
economy, later anchored by NAFTA. They show how Mexico, after
abandoning frequently successful past practices of state-led
development, disastrously tied its future to an unconditional
reliance on foreign corporations to promote an export-led growth
strategy. Focusing on Mexico's cheap labor export model, the
authors use the maquiladora sector and the auto industry as case
studies of the perils of globalization the "race to the bottom" as
capital becomes ever more international. The government's
unconstrained free-market policies, they convincingly argue, have
resulted in a fragmented economy marked by stagnation, falling
wages, informal part-time employment, and massive migration, which
define daily life for all but a tiny minority.
Written by two leading scholars, this book provides a detailed
analysis of Mexico's political economy. James M. Cypher and Raul
Delgado Wise begin with an examination of Mexico's pivotal economic
crisis of the 1980s and the consequent turn toward an export-led
economy, later anchored by NAFTA. They show how Mexico, after
abandoning frequently successful past practices of state-led
development, disastrously tied its future to an unconditional
reliance on foreign corporations to promote an export-led growth
strategy. Focusing on Mexico's cheap labor export model, the
authors use the maquiladora sector and the auto industry as case
studies of the perils of globalization-the "race to the bottom" as
capital becomes ever more international. The government's
unconstrained free-market policies, they convincingly argue, have
resulted in a fragmented economy marked by stagnation, falling
wages, informal part-time employment, and massive migration, which
define daily life for all but a tiny minority.
Since the year 2000 Latin America has been at the forefront of a
series of diverse experiments with alternative forms, pathways and
models of economic development and at the cutting edge of the
international theoretical and political debates that surround these
experiments. Reframing Latin American Development brings together
leading scholars from Latin America and elsewhere to debate and
discuss the current practice and futures of the Latin American
experience with alternative forms of development over the last
period and particularly since the end of neoliberal dominance. The
models discussed range from the neo developmentalism approach of
growth with equity, to the Buen Vivir (How to Live Well) philosophy
advanced by the indigenous communities of the Andean highlands and
implemented in the national development plans of the governments of
Bolivia and Ecuador. Other models of alternative development
include the so-called socialism of the twenty-first century and
diverse proposals for constructing a social and solidarity economy
and other models of local development based on the agency of
community-based grassroots organizations and social movements.
Reframing Latin American Development will be of particular interest
to researchers, teachers and students in the fields of
international development, Latin American studies and the
economics, politics and sociology of development.
How do the United Nations, international organizations,
governments, corporate actors and a wide variety of civil society
organizations and regional and global trade unions perceive the
root causes of migration, global inequality and options for
sustainable development? This is one of the most pertinent
political questions of the 21st century. This comprehensive
collection examines the development of an emerging global
governance on migration with the focus on spaces, roles, strategies
and alliance-making of a composite transnational civil society
engaged in issues of rights and the protection of migrants and
their families. It reveals the need to strengthen networking and
convergence among movements that adopt different entry points to
the same struggle, from fighting 'managed' migration to contesting
corporate control of food and land. The authors examine the
opportunities and challenges faced by civil society in its
endeavour to promote a rights-based approach within international
and intergovernmental fora engaged in setting up a global compact
for the management of migration, such as the Global Forum for
Migration and Development, and in other global policy spaces.
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a CC-BY 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367147266_oachapter1.pdf
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a CC-BY 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367147266_oachapter3.pdf
Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a CC-BY 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367147266_oachapter6.pdf
Development studies is typically used by agencies concerned on
improving the living conditions of people across the world by
advancing capitalism as the institutional and policy framework of
the global development process. Veltmeyer and Delgado Wise, on the
contrary, view capitalism as the problem rather than the solution,
and provide a critical development perspective on some of the major
issues that afflict people and countries across the world. This
introductory volume provides readers with an overview of the key
issues of development studies from a critical perspective: the
nature of the global capitalist system and an analysis of the
dynamics associated with the development process, the agrarian
question, the outmigration and urbanization of rural areas, the
formation of a global working class and the emergence of powerful
resistance movements such as the Zapatistas.
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