15 research outputs found
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Auslandseinsätze der Bundeswehr im Rahmen deutscher Sicherheitspolitik: Kooperation und Vernetzung. Ein Bericht zu den 15. Bensberger Gesprächen im Februar 2018
We Know Much about What to Do but Little about How to Do it: Experiences with a Weekly Multimicronutrient Supplementation Campaign
Students’ Socioscientific Reasoning and Decision-making on Energy-related Issues—Development of a measurement instrument
Evaluating Sustainable Development solutions quantitatively: Competence modelling for GCE and ESD
Migrants as transnational development agents: An inquiry into the newest round of the miaration-development nexus
Faist T. Migrants as transnational development agents: An inquiry into the newest round of the miaration-development nexus. POPULATION SPACE AND PLACE. 2008;14(1):21-42.Migrant networks and organisations have emerged as development agents. They interact with state institutions in flows of financial remittances, knowledge, and political ideas. In the discursive dimension, the new enthusiasm on the part of OECD states and international organisations, such as the World Bank, for migrant remittances, migrant associations and their role in development, is a sign of two trends which have coincided. Firstly, community as a principle of development has come to supplement principles of social order such as the market and the state. Secondly, in the current round of the migration-development nexus, migrants in general and transnational collective actors in particular have been constituted by states and international organisations as a significant agent. In the institutional dimension, agents such as hometown associations, networks of businesspersons, epistemic networks and political diasporas have emerged as collective actors. These formations are not unitary actors, and they are frequently in conflict with states and communities of origin. The analysis concludes with :reflections of how national states structure the transnational spaces in which non-state actors are engaged in cross-border flows, leading towards a tight linkage between migration control, immigrant incorporation and development cooperation. Copyright (C) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd