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Under Development: GenderThe Seed and the Fertile Soil: Re-examining the Migration-Development Nexus through the Lens of Gender

Under Development: Gender: The Seed and the Fertile Soil: Re-examining the Migration-Development... [After inciting debates, controversy and numerous academic works as well as reports by international organisations, the migration-development nexus fell somewhat out of favour and out of fashion, only to be revisited and overhauled in the past few years in both the political sphere and the world of research (Haas, 2010). Until the dawn of this century, most works adopted an economic perspective, focusing in particular on the scale of immigrants’ monetary transfers, on the forms these remittances took and their prices, on the so-called productive types of investment implemented, and on their impact on local development (see the review of the literature by Montoya Zavala, 2006). Consequently, these studies analysed the migration-development nexus from the angle of production and emphasised the role played by men. Metaphorically speaking, we could say that they approached the migration dynamic from the perspective of the seed, concentrating on the productive sphere without considering its links with the reproductive sphere, which we could figuratively term the “fertile soil”.5] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Under Development: GenderThe Seed and the Fertile Soil: Re-examining the Migration-Development Nexus through the Lens of Gender

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Verschuur, Christine; Guérin, Isabelle; Guétat-Bernard, Hélène
Catarino, Christine; Oso, Laura
Under Development: Gender — Jan 22, 2016
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-67554-8
Pages
192 –210
DOI
10.1057/9781137356826_10
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Abstract

[After inciting debates, controversy and numerous academic works as well as reports by international organisations, the migration-development nexus fell somewhat out of favour and out of fashion, only to be revisited and overhauled in the past few years in both the political sphere and the world of research (Haas, 2010). Until the dawn of this century, most works adopted an economic perspective, focusing in particular on the scale of immigrants’ monetary transfers, on the forms these remittances took and their prices, on the so-called productive types of investment implemented, and on their impact on local development (see the review of the literature by Montoya Zavala, 2006). Consequently, these studies analysed the migration-development nexus from the angle of production and emphasised the role played by men. Metaphorically speaking, we could say that they approached the migration dynamic from the perspective of the seed, concentrating on the productive sphere without considering its links with the reproductive sphere, which we could figuratively term the “fertile soil”.5]

Published: Jan 22, 2016

Keywords: Host Country; International Migration; Fertile Soil; Migrant Woman; International Migration Review

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