Migration and Economy Global and Local Dynamics

by Trager, Lillian; Perez, Ricardo; Koenig, Dolores; Cohen, Jeffrey; Sancak, Meltem; Finke, Peter; Newell, Sasha; Grigolini, Silvia; Lubkemann, Stephen; Eversole, Robyn

• ISBN13: 9780759107755
• ISBN10: 0759107750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-05
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Trager and her coauthors focus on migration not as a single event but as a dynamic process that responds to and is shaped by broader economic, cultural, and social forces. Individual essays consider issues of international and internal migration; of transnational and multilocal networks through which remittances and other flows take place; and of migrants as active agents. They offer original studies on Mexico, Puerto Rico, West Africa, Kazakstan, and Mozambique. This new volume will be a valuable resource in development anthropology, migration studies, and international planning and policy. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: The Dynamics of Migration	1	(48)
Lillian Trager
PART I: MIGRATION, HOUSEHOLDS, AND STRATIFICATION
Unbound Households: Trajectories of Labor, Migration, and Transnational Livelihoods in (and from) Southern Puerto Rico	49	(28)
Ricardo Perez
Multilocality and Social Stratification in Kita, Mali	77	(26)
Dolores Koenig
Nonmigrant Households in Oaxaca, Mexico: Why Some People Stay While Others Leave	103	(24)
Jeffrey H. Cohen
Migration and Risk Taking: A Case Study from Kazakstan	127	(36)
Meltem Sancak
Peter Finke
Migratory Modernity and the Cosmology of Consumption in Cote d'Ivoire	163	(30)
Sasha Newell
PART II: REMITTANCES AND BEYOND
When Houses Provide More Than Shelter: Analyzing the Uses of Remittances within Their Sociocultural Context	193	(32)
Silvia Grigolini
Women Migrants and Hometown Linkages in Nigeria: Status, Economic Roles, and Contributions to Community Development	225	(32)
Lillian Trager
The Moral Economy of Nonreturn among Socially Diverted Labor Migrants from Portugal and Mozambique	257	(32)
Stephen C. Lubkemann
``Direct to the Poor'' Revisited: Migrant Remittances and Development Assistance	289	(34)
Robyn Eversole
Index	323	(6)
About the Contributors	329