1st Edition

Migration in the 21st Century Political Economy and Ethnography

262 Pages

by Routledge

272 Pages

by Routledge

262 Pages

by Routledge

Also available as eBook on:

Taylor & Francis eBooks
(Institutional Purchase)Opens in new tab or window

Description

This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the social consequences and asymmetries of twenty-first century capitalism’s global modalities. Drawn from... Read more

1. Migration, Political Economy and Ethnography Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem Part I: Perspectives 2. Panoptics of Political Economy: Anthropology and Migration Winnie Lem 3. Migration and Development Without Methodological Nationalism: Towards Global Perspectives on Migration Nina Glick Schiller 4. Theorizing Transnational Movement in the Current Conjuncture: Examples from/of/in the Asia Pacific Donald M. Nonini Part II: Cases 5. With Crossings In My Mind: Trinidad's Multiple Migration Flows, Policy and Agency Belinda Leach 6. Selecting, Competing, and Performing as ‘Ideal Migrants’: Mexican and Jamaican Farmworkers in Canada Janet McLaughlin 7. In Search of Hope: Mobility and Citizenships on the Canadian Frontier Lindsay Bell 8. Constructing a "Perfect" Wall: Race, Class, and Citizenship in U.S.–Mexico Border Policing Josiah McC. Heyman 9. The Aftermath of a Rape Case: The Politics of Migrants´ Unequal Incorporation in Neo-Liberal Times Bela Feldman-Bianco 10. Gender, Migration and Rural-Urban Relations in Postsocialist China Yan Hairong 11. "Value Plus Plus": Housewifization and History in Philippine Care Migration Pauline Gardiner Barber and Catherine Bryan 12. Migration, Political Economy and Beyond Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem