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Migration and development: a theoretical perspective
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This paper aims to put the debate on migration and development in a broader historical perspective of migration theory in particular and social theory in general. The scholarly debate on migration and development has tended to swing back and forth like a pendulum, from developmentalist optimism in the 1950s and 1960s, to structuralist and neo-Marxist pessimism and scepticism over the 1970s and 1980s, to more nuanced views influenced by the new economics of labour migration, “livelihood...
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- International Migration Institute
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- IMI Working Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
- Paper number:
- 9
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330060
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