Handbook on Migration and Development

Edited by Raúl Delgado Wise, Professor and Founding Director, Doctoral Programme in Development Studies, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico, Branka Likic-Brboric, Professor, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden, Ronaldo Munck, Professor of Sociology, Dublin City University, Ireland and Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Professor, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden

Contents

1 Introduction to Handbook on Migration and Development 1
PART I COMPETING PERSPECTIVES
2 Social transformation and human mobility: reflections on the past,
present and future of migration 19
Stephen Castles
3 Migration and development: an update on global trends 32
Alejandro Portes
4 The migration-development nexus revisited: imperialism and the export
of labour power 45
Raúl Delgado Wise
5 Cross-border methods: the challenge of methodological nationalism and
the prospects of transnational methodology 57
Thomas Faist
6 Changing the dominant narrative on migration and development:
strategic indicators 76
Alejandro I. Canales and Selene Gaspar Olvera
7 Migration and development as policy in Asia: a nexus in flux 96
Jeremaiah M. Opiniano and Maruja M. B. Asis
8 Climate change, environmental degradation and the reproduction of
social inequalities 115
Thomas Faist and Kerstin Schmidt
9 Debunking migration and development: a dispossession and
replacement studies approach 131
Nina Glick Schiller
PART II EXPLOITATION AND DISPOSSESSION
10 Unmasking irregular migration to the United States 150
Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey
11 Migration processes in Northern Central America and the unequal
outcomes of US and Mexican migration policies 165
Rodolfo Casillas
12 From Central America to Venezuela: displaced people, forced
migration and the geopolitical agenda of the United States 184
Daniel Villafuerte Solís and María del Carmen García Aguilar
13 International migration in Latin America: critical perspectives on the
construction of a field of knowledge 200
Gioconda Herrera and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
14 Women’s self-reliance and sustainable livelihoods: implementation of
the Kalobeyei Integrated Socio-Economic Development Plan (KISEDP)
for refugees and the host population in Kenya 214
Måns Fellesson and Paula Mählck
15 Gender stereotypes in human mobility: reflections and challenges from
the Global South 229
María Luz Espiro and Sabrina P. Vecchioni
16 Transnational migration and the extractivist logic of global capitalism:
the EU–Eastern Africa geopolitical space 245
Zuzana Uhde
17 Rural–urban migration, the commodification of labour and welfare
restructuring in China and Vietnam 263
Minh T.N. Nguyen and Jake Lin
18 Labour and forced migration into post-Soviet Russia 277
Vyacheslav Bobkov and Igor Shichkin
19 Migration and trade unions: challenges and opportunities 295
Ronaldo Munck
PART III MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE
20 The limits to migration and development policies 309
Ronald Skeldon
21 World governance: a glimmer of hope? 323
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
22 A countermovement of the precariat: migration, labour, and the enigma
of human rights 333
Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Aleksandra Ålund
23 Migration, development and depoliticization in the Global Compact for
Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration 346
Antoine Pécoud
24 Business-led governance of migration and development: a challenge for
civil society 363
Branka Likić-Brborić
25 A critical perspective on the ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe 381
Zeynep Sahin-Mencutek and Anna Triandafyllidou
26 Rethinking the migrant rights agenda in global migration governance:
a decolonized rights-based approach 396
Hari KC and Nicola Piper
27 Towards a global network of sanctuary or solidarity cities 413
Óscar García Agustín & Martin Bak Jørgensen
28 Skilled migration in the service of imperial innovation 430
Raœl Delgado Wise