Migration and Development: A Theoretical Perspective
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...…http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjms20 The Internal Dynamics of Migration Processes: A Theoretical Inquiry Hein de Haas To cite this article: Hein de Haas (2010) The Internal Dynamics of Migration Processes: A Theoretical Inquiry, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36:10, 1587-1617, DOI:…...
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...…by Massey has strong conceptual parallels with neo-Marxist theories on migration and development, according to which migration undermines the economies of sending communities by depriving them of their human and material resources and increasing their dependence on the outside world (de Haas 2010)....
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...These ideologies have links with neoclassical economic theory and the functionalist paradigm in social theory of which it is part, which in their focus on individual actors and markets largely neglects structural constraints such as ingrained socio-economic and power inequalities (de Haas, 2010a)....
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...International Migration 2012 IOM which both positive and negative development responses were possible, depending on the degree to which sending countries and regions provided attractive environments in which to invest and to which to return (de Haas, 2010a)....
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...…in view of evidence that aspiration- and capabilities-increasing development processes tend to increase migration propensities, and that highly developed societies tend to have structurally higher levels of mobility and migration (de Haas, 2010b), this issue lies beyond the scope of this paper....
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...The migration optimists are generally inspired by neoclassical migration economy and ⁄or ‘‘developmentalist’’ modernization theories (I elaborated the theoretical foundations and assumptions of these theories in de Haas, 2010a)....
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...Migration and development has been the subject of continuous and sometimes heated debate in the social sciences for over half a century at least (Bauer and Zimmermann, 1998; de Haas, 2010a; Russell, 1992)....
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...Transnationalism may also have normative and political aspects, for instance in the context of long-distance nationalism (Koser 2003) or migration and development (de Haas 2010), where migrants may be ‘expected’ to contribute to their country of origin....
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...Finally, vulnerability and livelihood frameworks share what de Haas (2010) argues are unrecognized parallels with NELM approaches....
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...New approaches such as NELM and livelihood perspectives (de Haas 2010) have www.annualreviews.org • Environmental Dimensions of Migration 387 A nn u....
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...What has remained unobserved so far is that migration economists have – apparently unintentionally – provided additional economic evidence for and further refinement of the transitional migration perspective by uncovering the anatomy of the “migration hump”. Martin (1993) and Martin and Taylor (1996) argued that a temporary increase in migration – a migration hump – has been a usual part of the process of economic development....
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...As Kuhn (1962) argued, proponents of different paradigms live in different worlds, use different vocabularies, and use different criteria determining the legitimacy both of problems and of proposed solutions in terms of methodology and analysis....
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...Each paradigm therefore has the tendency to satisfy the criteria it sets for itself and to reject the very problem definition as well as evaluation criteria used by other paradigms (Kuhn, 1962:109)....
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...Social scientists, influenced by post-modernist thinking and Giddens’ (1984) structuration theory, sought to harmonize agency and structure-oriented approaches....
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...Although some individual action is routinized and mainly serves to reproduce structures, rules and institutions, other action has agency, serving to change the system and perhaps, in time, remake new rules (Giddens, 1984)....
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...Although some individual action is routinized and mainly serves to reproduce structures, rules and institutions, other action has agency, serving to change the system and perhaps, in time, remake new rules (Giddens 1984)....
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...Social scientists, influenced by post-modernist thinking and Giddens (1984) structuration theory,8 sought to harmonize agency and structure-oriented approaches....
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