Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international debates, and is the topic of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR09). The starting point is that the global distribution of capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this is a major driver for movement of people. Migration can expand their choices — in terms of incomes, accessing services and participation, for example — but the opportunities open to people vary from those who are best endowed to those with limited skills and assets. These underlying inequalities, which can be compounded by policy distortions, is a theme of the report.The report investigates migration in the context of demographic changes and trends in both growth and inequality. It also presents more detailed and nuanced individual, family and village experiences, and explores less visible movements typically pursued by disadvantaged groups such as short term and seasonal migration.There is a range of evidence about the positive impacts of migration on human development, through such avenues as increased household incomes and improved access to education and health services. There is further evidence that migration can empower traditionally disadvantaged groups, in particular women. At the same time, risks to human development are also present where migration is a reaction to threats and denial of choice, and where regular opportunities for movement are constrained.National and local policies play a critical role in enabling better human development outcomes for both those who choose to move in order to improve their circumstances, and those forced to relocate due to conflict, environmental degradation, or other reasons. Host country restrictions can raise both the costs and the risks of migration. Similarly, negative outcomes can arise at the country levels where basic civic rights, like voting, schooling and health care are denied to those who have moved across provincial lines to work and live. HDR09 shows how a human development approach can be a means to redress some of the underlying issues that erode the potential benefits of mobility and/or force migration.

Human Development Report 2009. Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development

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Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research

..". an excellent broad overview... " --Journal of Social History..". powerfully argued... " --Moses Rischin..". imaginative and soundly based... " --Choice"Highly recommended... " --Library Journal..". an outstanding major contribution to the literature on immigration history." --History..". a very important new synthesis of American immigration history... " --Journal of American Ethnic History..". a state of the art discussion, impressively encyclopaedic... The Transplanted is a tour de force, and a fitting summation to Bodnar's own prolific, creative, and insightful writings on immigrants." --Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryA major survey of the immigrant experience between 1830 and 1930, this book has implications for all students and scholars of American social history.

The Transplanted-A History of Immigrants in Urban America.

In the last few decades, community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged as an important approach that links environmental health and justice advocates with research institutions to understand and address environmental health problems. CBPR has generally been evaluated for its impact on policy, regulation, and its support of community science. However, there has been less emphasis on assessing the ways in which CBPR (re)shapes and potentially improves the scientific enterprise itself. This commentary focuses on this under-emphasized aspect of CBPR—how it can strengthen science. Using two case studies of environmental health CBPR research—the Northern California Household Exposure Study, and the San Joaquin Valley Drinking Water Study—we posit that CBPR helps improve the “3 Rs” of science—rigor, relevance and reach—and in so doing benefits the scientific enterprise itself.

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The Three R's: How Community Based Participatory Research Strengthens the Rigor, Relevance and Reach of Science.

Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1810-1960

Introduction 1. Reconfiguring empire: the British world 2. Networks and the British world 3. Overseas migration 4. Markets and consumer cultures 5. Information and investment Conclusion.

Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850–1914

Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Tables and Figures 1. Elites 2. The Lower Middle Class and the Working Classes at Home 3. The Working Class at Work 4. The Working Class at Play 5. Women and Children 6. Domestic Politics 7. Metropolitan Economics 8. The Forging of British Identities 9. After-Effects Afterword Appendix Bibliography

The Empire Strikes Back?: The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Imperial languages, identities and beliefs mobilizing imperialists propagating imperialism imperial trade - tariff reform imperial security - naval supremacy and defence planning populating the empire - overseas migration World War I and its imperial aftermath.

Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, c. 1880-1932

Reviewing the expansion and ultimate demise of the British and French empires, this article takes a long view of globalisation as an integral part of Europe's recent imperial past. The authors’ argument is that these empires were not simply a global phenomenon. Rather, the processes that built and destroyed them were more actively ‘globalising’. In this context, they argue that the rise and fall of the two pre-eminent overseas empires had several globalising effects. These globalising effects include distinct patterns of migration and communication, critical shifts in the movement of goods and capital, new forms of transnational connection, changing conceptualisations of community and individual rights, and discrete forms of violence and conflict that outlasted the ‘formal’ end of empires.

Empire and Globalisation: from ‘High Imperialism’ to Decolonisation

Britain of the nineteenth century was a net recipient of migrant remittances. Surprisingly little, however, is known about the flow of such funds to the UK. This article addresses this hiatus in several ways. First, it provides an account of the main mechanisms by which remittances were transferred in this period. Second, it presents new estimates of the volume of remittances flowing to Britain between 1875 and 1913, and, in doing so, offers a comparison of remittance patterns between different Anglophone societies. Third, it assesses the significance of remittances for their recipients in the UK. The article ends by considering the implications of all of the above for the way in which historians are currently trying to formulate the concept of a ‘British world’.

Andrew S. Thompson

Papers

Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850–1914

The Empire Strikes Back?: The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, c. 1880-1932

Empire and Globalisation: from ‘High Imperialism’ to Decolonisation

`Lines of credit, debts of obligation¿: migrant remittances to Britain, c.1875¿1913