Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture

Held, David; McGrew, Anthony; Perraton, Jonathan

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“…However, in recent times, globalization has challenged national models in the social sciences and drawn attention to cross-border flows as key instruments of change. There are signs of a new emphasis on human mobility in social theory, and some key works on global change (such as Bauman 1998;Beck 2007;Cohen and Kennedy 2000;Held et al 1999) now stress the centrality of migration in contemporary social relations. This shift is not surprising: if the principle of the 'container society' is no longer sustainable (even as a myth), then flows across borders become a crucial area of investigation for the social sciences.…”

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Development and Migration—Migration and Development: What Comes First? Global Perspective and African Experiences

Castles¹

2009

Theoria

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Socio-economic change and human mobility are constantly interactive processes, so to ask whether migration or development comes first is nonsensical. Yet in both popular and political discourse it has become the conventional wisdom to argue that promoting economic development in the Global South has the potential to reduce migration to the North. This carries the clear implication that such migration is a bad thing, and poor people should stay put. This 'sedentary bias' is a continuation of colonial policies designed to mobilise labour for mines and plantations, while preventing permanent settlement in the cities. European policy-makers and academics are particularly concerned with flows from Africa, and measures taken by the European Union and its member states are often designed to reduce these -often in the guise of well-meaning development policies. By contrast, many migration scholars regard human mobility as a normal part of social transformation processes, and a way in which people can exercise agency to improve their livelihoods. This article examines these problems, first by providing a brief history of academic debates on international migration and development. It goes on to look at the politics of migration and development, using both EU policy and African approaches as examples. An alternative approach to migration and development is presented, based on a conceptual framework derived from the analysis of social transformation processes.

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Development and Migration—Migration and Development: What Comes First? Global Perspective and African Experiences

Castles¹

2009

Theoria

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“…Second, given the changes to the nation-state as the sole sphere of authorityregardless of its continuing existence and contribution to global politics-there is an active discussion across the literature about the practice of democracy in a globalized world (Held et al 1999). Democracy on a global level occurs in venues of collective action that are becoming increasingly pluralized and community based, and less under the direct organization of the state (Warren 2002: 682).…”

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Evaluating the Quality and Legitimacy of Global Governance: A Theoretical and Analytical Approach

Cadman¹

2012

International Journal of Social Quality

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Global governance, central to international rule-making, is rapidly evolving; thus, there is a need for a way to evaluate whether institutions have the capacity to address the problems of the contemporary era. Current methods of evaluating the democratic quality of contemporary governance are closely linked to legitimacy, about which there are competing defi nitional theories. Th is article uses a theoretical approach based around "new" governance and the environmental policy arena to argue that contemporary governance is best understood as social-political interaction built on "participation as structure" and "deliberation as process", with the level of interaction ultimately determining legitimacy. It presents a new arrangement of the accepted attributes of "good" governance using a set of principles, criteria and indicators, and relates these to the structures and processes of governance. Th e implications and application of the analytical framework are also discussed.

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“…Many of the often-cited works pay scant attention to the mobility of people (Albrow 2007;Castells 1996), and if they do, they often portray it in an affirmative way, depicting migrants as smooth interlocutors of cosmopolitan lifestyles (Beck 2007). With the exceptions of David Held and his collaborators in their sweeping account of global transformations (Held et al 1999), there is an odd silence on mobility in general and on migration in particular, along with the concomitant societal changes. Yet there are glaring gaps, even in migration studies and development studies themselves.…”

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Transnationalization and Development: Toward an Alternative Agenda

Faist¹

2009

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The central puzzle discussed in this article is that, despite the new interest in migration and development, much of development studies focuses only on the transfer of resources from the North or West to the South and East. Yet transnational studies document two-way flows. In addressing this issue, the article answers three questions. First, what is new and what is old about the current 'mantra' of the migration-development nexus? Second, with regard to sustained cross-border transactions, which and what kind of transnational ties benefit development? Third, why is there a new enthusiasm about migration and development at this particular point in time? How is this new direction connected to shifting paradigms in development thinking and to changing geo-political alignments and forms of migration control after the end of the Cold War?

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Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture

Cited by 514 publications

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Development and Migration—Migration and Development: What Comes First? Global Perspective and African Experiences

Development and Migration—Migration and Development: What Comes First? Global Perspective and African Experiences

Evaluating the Quality and Legitimacy of Global Governance: A Theoretical and Analytical Approach

Transnationalization and Development: Toward an Alternative Agenda

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