Transnational Migration and Human Security (eBook, PDF)

The Migration-Development-Security Nexus
Redaktion: Truong, Thanh-Dam; Gasper, Des

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses key aspects of human security in transnational migration. The 22 essays cover all levels of migration systems, from families, farms and firms through to global organizations and negotiating forums. They show how institutional frameworks for cross-border movements of people, finance, and goods have co-evolved with changes in the workings of nation-states. They thereby reveal aspects of power and privilege within 'international migration' as a discursive area and at its intersections with the fields of 'development', governance and 'security'. Revisiting presuppositions that have been taken as givens, and exploring their role in shaping rules and institutions that control the movements of people across and within borders, the essays reveal also the mentalities and rationalities that have made up and continue to make up the reality of transnational migration today. A human security perspective can encourage exploratory thinking and provide conceptual space for deeper understandings of 'human', 'movement' and 'borders', to help overcome the limits of conventional analytical and policy dualisms and dichotomies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783642127571
• Artikelnr.: 44128145

Autorenporträt

Thanh-Dam Truong is co-ordinator of the research group on Migration and Human Security and Associate Professor in Women, Gender and Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Many of her publications address the nexus of gender, migration and human security, including: Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in Southeast Asia. Des Gasper is Professor of Human Development, Development Ethics and Public Policy at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Nether-lands. Previous work includes: (with Raymond Apthorpe): Arguing Development Policy ¿ Frames and Discourses (London: Frank Cass, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Part I Introduction.- Part II Neoliberal Governmentality and Transnational Migration: the Interplay of Security Fears and Business Forces.- Part III Migrant Experiences: Agency in the Grey Zone.- Part IV Transnational Identities and Issues of Citizenship.- Part V Ethics of Modern Day Transnational Migration: A Human Security

Perspective.- Abbreviations.- Bibliography.- Biographies of Contributors.- Index.