scholarly journals A critical examination of remittances as a neoliberal development strategy: the burden of development on an exploitable migrant workforce

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Global North ◽  
Migrant Remittances ◽  
Migration And Development

In recent years, the migration and development framework has shifted to a focus on the role of diasporas and migrant remittances in homeland development. Using criticality and particularly political economy as a methodology, this research paper sheds light on how the so-called migration-development nexus is embedded within a context of unequal neoliberal economic globalization. The research paper demonstrates that current approaches are a resurgence of modernization theories of development, which ignore the structural and historic conditions within which international migration from the Global South to the Global North is embedded. The research paper puts forward that the current focus on remittances as a source of development places the burden of a country's development onto an exploitable migrant workforce.

A critical examination of remittances as a neoliberal development strategy: the burden of development on an exploitable migrant workforce

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Global North ◽  
Migrant Remittances ◽  
Migration And Development

In recent years, the migration and development framework has shifted to a focus on the role of diasporas and migrant remittances in homeland development. Using criticality and particularly political economy as a methodology, this research paper sheds light on how the so-called migration-development nexus is embedded within a context of unequal neoliberal economic globalization. The research paper demonstrates that current approaches are a resurgence of modernization theories of development, which ignore the structural and historic conditions within which international migration from the Global South to the Global North is embedded. The research paper puts forward that the current focus on remittances as a source of development places the burden of a country's development onto an exploitable migrant workforce.

A critical examination of remittances as a neoliberal development strategy: the burden of development on an exploitable migrant workforce

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Global North ◽  
Migrant Remittances ◽  
Migration And Development

In recent years, the migration and development framework has shifted to a focus on the role of diasporas and migrant remittances in homeland development. Using criticality and particularly political economy as a methodology, this research paper sheds light on how the so-called migration-development nexus is embedded within a context of unequal neoliberal economic globalization. The research paper demonstrates that current approaches are a resurgence of modernization theories of development, which ignore the structural and historic conditions within which international migration from the Global South to the Global North is embedded. The research paper puts forward that the current focus on remittances as a source of development places the burden of a country's development onto an exploitable migrant workforce.

scholarly journals A critical examination of remittances as a neoliberal development strategy: the burden of development on an exploitable migrant workforce

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Global North ◽  
Migrant Remittances ◽  
Migration And Development

In recent years, the migration and development framework has shifted to a focus on the role of diasporas and migrant remittances in homeland development. Using criticality and particularly political economy as a methodology, this research paper sheds light on how the so-called migration-development nexus is embedded within a context of unequal neoliberal economic globalization. The research paper demonstrates that current approaches are a resurgence of modernization theories of development, which ignore the structural and historic conditions within which international migration from the Global South to the Global North is embedded. The research paper puts forward that the current focus on remittances as a source of development places the burden of a country's development onto an exploitable migrant workforce.

On the Migrant Subject

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-214
Author(s):  
Hengameh Ziai
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Global South ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Open Door Policy ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Global North ◽  
Economic Assets ◽  
In Transit

AbstractPluralism is deployed to govern migration across the Global North and Global South in contradictory ways. Fearing the arrival of migrants on its own shores – a threat to its biopolitical constitution – Europe deploys discourses of pluralism in the Global South to encourage migrants en route to Europe to sedentarize in “transit” countries like Sudan. Neoliberal development projects propagate the virtues of pluralism to host communities in Sudan, who are exhorted to view migrants as potential economic assets. Yet, in the context of Europe those same migrants continue to be seen as an economic and racial threat. While a lack of skills and entrepreneurialism are framed as the “root cause” of migration to Europe, migrants are paradoxically presented as trainable and therefore economically productive in the Global South. This article offers a critical examination of consolidating migration management practices in Sudan, their imbrication with development projects, and the racial anxieties they evoke in both Europe and in “transit” countries. It homes in on not only populations headed towards Europe, but those intending to remain in Sudan, notably Syrians, and explores the lessons and aporias of Sudan's hitherto open-door policy towards the latter.

scholarly journals Divine Development: Transnational Indian Religious Organizations in the United States and India

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 910-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rina Agarwala
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Indian American ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
The World ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Migration And Development

This article examines how Indian Americans’ religious organizations send not only financial remittances to India, but also social remittances that shape development ideologies. Comparing Indian-American Hindu and Muslim organizations, I find both groups draw from their socioeconomic experiences in India and use their position as elite immigrants in the United States to identify and empower their respective religious constituencies in India and overturn different social relations (not just religious practices). Hindu Americans draw from their majority status in India to overturn India's lower position in the world system and support poverty alleviation efforts within a neoliberal development framework. Indian-American Muslims draw from their poor status in India to overturn economic inequities within India by shifting India's development rhetoric from identity to class. Collective religious identities (expressed through organizations) not only affect the intensity of immigrants’ development efforts, but also their content and ideology. These findings urge us to fold transnational religious organizations into contemporary discussions on migration and development.

Digital Borders, Diasporic Flows and the Nigerian Transgender Beauty Queen Who Would Not Be Denied

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B Camminga
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Beauty Pageant ◽  
Global North ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Tabloid Press

In 2011, Miss Sahhara, a transgender woman from Nigeria with UK refugee status, was crowned First Princess at the world’s largest and most prestigious beauty pageant for transgender women—Miss International Queen. The then Cultural Minister of Nigeria when contacted for comment responded that if she was transgender, she could not be Nigerian, and if she was Nigerian, she could not be transgender—a tacit denial of her very existence. In recent years, LGBT people “fleeing Africa” to the “Global North” has become a common media trope. Responses to this, emanating from a variety of African voices, have provided a more nuanced reading of sexuality. What has been absent from these readings has been the role of gender expression, particularly a consideration of transgender experiences. I understand transgender refugees to have taken up “lines of flight” such that, in a Deleuzian sense, they do not only flee persecution in countries of origin but also recreate or speak back to systems of control and oppressive social conditions. Some transgender people who have left, like Miss Sahhara, have not gone silently, using digital means to project a new political visibility of individuals, those who are both transgender and African, back at the African continent. In Miss Sahhara’s case, this political visibility has not gone unnoticed in the Nigerian tabloid press. Drawing on the story of Miss Sahhara, this paper maps these flows and contraflows, asking what they might reveal about configurations of nationhood, gender and sexuality as they are formed at both the digital and physical interstices between Africa and the Global North.

Problems Of Investment Attractiveness In The Economy Of Uzbekistan

GIS Business ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-245
Author(s):  
Khamrakulova O.D. ◽  
Bektemirov A.B.
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The State ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
The Development Strategy ◽  
Macroeconomic Stability

The deepening of economic reforms in Uzbekistan is closely linked to the strengthening of macroeconomic stability and the maintenance of high rates of economic growth and competitiveness, the continuation of institutional and structural reforms to reduce the presence of the State in the economy, and the further strengthening of the protection of rights and the priority role of private property, as reflected in the Development Strategy for 2017-2021.

Career Pathways

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Career Technical Education ◽  
Career Support ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Career Pathway

Numerous transformations have taken place in the workplace during the past several decades, combining to produce a dramatically different career landscape for individuals, educators, and organizations. Career pathways is a workforce development strategy that can be used to support career development activities and transitions across school and work roles. Adopting a career pathways framework and approach can help guide educational institutions in teaching students competencies that will increase their employability and can also help organizations develop people strategically, build engagement, and improve retention. In this book, a wide variety of critically important career pathway topics are addressed, including the role of career technical education, apprenticeships, and career support in career pathways; proactivity and career crafting; the gig economy and emerging career pathways; the role of data analytics in providing career and workforce insights; and career pathways for late career workers. It includes case study chapters that provide important practical insight into the development and use of career pathways in both educational and workplace settings. This book brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways. It shows how career pathways can help individuals and organizations succeed in today’s workplace and in the workplace of the future.

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