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The Migration Reader: Exploring Politics And Policies
Book by Messina, Anthony
698 pages, Paperback
First published August 30, 2005
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November 29, 2015In "The Migration Reader," Messina & Lahav (2006) predicted by analysis what had happened this year and what now French and British media "discovers" as the underlying reasons for the crisis in Europe and the United States:
"Theories of international migration pay remarkably little attention to state interventions, while the literature on international relations says relatively little about population movements, except insofar as the refugee phenomenon is described as an outcome of conflicts. How do state actions shape population movements, when do such movements lead to conflicts and when to cooperation, and what do governments do in their domestic policies to adjust to or influence population flows are questions that have received for too little attention" (p. 89) .
The book is a collection of essays by specialists in the field. By explaining the complexity of what we can loosely call "migration," they predict through their analysis the events of 2015. The titles of the chapters as published in 2006: e.g., "Challenges the State Sovereignty, or "The Politics of Resentment," are literally taken from the American and Western European dailies in 2015.
It is only disheartening that politicians have not and will not read, understand and consider this book. Yet, keeping in mind that those same politicians' intellectual state and Weltanschauung reaches pitiful low (e.g. Carson and the pyramids), the hopes that a scientific approach will be used to approach the issue of migration is as minimal as their acknowledgement that global warming exists.
with approximately 175 million people currently residing outside their country of origin, international migration is at its historical zenith. p. 1 within that group are 17 million asylum seekers, refugees and other persons of concern.
p. 2 many and oftentimes controversial and conflicting voices that reverberate within the contemporay scholarship on migration. pedagogical void
p. 17 the Fairy Tail of a Migration Flood or: How Many? Where (p. 18) and Who (p. 19)
the current debate about migration is partly characterized by strong prejudices. The most obvious is the fairy tale of a new dramatic increase in international migrants.
p. 20 Future Migration Flows: How Likely Is the Widely Expected Migration Flood?
"Fortress Europe,"
p. 34 Theories:
p. 36 neoclassical economics: Macro Theory
international migration, like its internal counterpart, is caused by geographic differences in the supply and demand of labor. p. 37 Micro Theory - conceptualized as a form of investment in human capital.
p. 38 The New Economics of Migration
migration decision are not made by isolated individual actors, but by larger units of related people - in which people act collectively not only to maximize expected income, but also to minimize risks and to loosen constrains associated with a variety of market failures, apart from those in the labor market.
p. 40 Dual Labor Market Theory
international migration, according to Piore (1979). is caused by a permanent demand for immigrant labor that is inherent to the economic structure of developed nations.
p. 41 World Systems Theory
sociological theorists: driven by a desire for higher profits and greater wealth, owners and managers of capitalist firms enter poor countries on the periphery of the world economy in search of land, raw materials, labor, and new consumer markets. In the past, this market penetration was assisted by colonial regimes that administered poor regions for the benefit of economic interests in colonizing societies. Today it is made possible by neocolonial governments and multinational firms that perpetuate the power of national elites who either participate in the world economy as capitalist themselves, or offer their nation’s resources to global firms on acceptable terms.
p. 43 network theory
migrant networks are sets of interpersonal ties that connect migrants, former migrants, and nonmigrants in origin and destination areas through ties of kinship, friendship and shared community origin.
p. 44 institutional theory
p. 46 cumulative causation
p. 49 migration systems theory
p. 63 International Migration in Political Perspective
p. 89 On International Migration and International Relations
Theories of international migration pay remarkably little attention to state interventions, while the literature on international relations says relatively little about population movements, except insofar as the refugee phenomenon is described as an outcome of conflicts. How do state actions shape population movements, when do such movements lead to conflicts and when to cooperation, and what do governments do in their domestic policies to adjust to or influence population flows are questions that have received for too little attention.
"Theories of international migration pay remarkably little attention to state interventions, while the literature on international relations says relatively little about population movements, except insofar as the refugee phenomenon is described as an outcome of conflicts. How do state actions shape population movements, when do such movements lead to conflicts and when to cooperation, and what do governments do in their domestic policies to adjust to or influence population flows are questions that have received for too little attention" (p. 89) .
The book is a collection of essays by specialists in the field. By explaining the complexity of what we can loosely call "migration," they predict through their analysis the events of 2015. The titles of the chapters as published in 2006: e.g., "Challenges the State Sovereignty, or "The Politics of Resentment," are literally taken from the American and Western European dailies in 2015.
It is only disheartening that politicians have not and will not read, understand and consider this book. Yet, keeping in mind that those same politicians' intellectual state and Weltanschauung reaches pitiful low (e.g. Carson and the pyramids), the hopes that a scientific approach will be used to approach the issue of migration is as minimal as their acknowledgement that global warming exists.
with approximately 175 million people currently residing outside their country of origin, international migration is at its historical zenith. p. 1 within that group are 17 million asylum seekers, refugees and other persons of concern.
p. 2 many and oftentimes controversial and conflicting voices that reverberate within the contemporay scholarship on migration. pedagogical void
p. 17 the Fairy Tail of a Migration Flood or: How Many? Where (p. 18) and Who (p. 19)
the current debate about migration is partly characterized by strong prejudices. The most obvious is the fairy tale of a new dramatic increase in international migrants.
p. 20 Future Migration Flows: How Likely Is the Widely Expected Migration Flood?
"Fortress Europe,"
p. 34 Theories:
p. 36 neoclassical economics: Macro Theory
international migration, like its internal counterpart, is caused by geographic differences in the supply and demand of labor. p. 37 Micro Theory - conceptualized as a form of investment in human capital.
p. 38 The New Economics of Migration
migration decision are not made by isolated individual actors, but by larger units of related people - in which people act collectively not only to maximize expected income, but also to minimize risks and to loosen constrains associated with a variety of market failures, apart from those in the labor market.
p. 40 Dual Labor Market Theory
international migration, according to Piore (1979). is caused by a permanent demand for immigrant labor that is inherent to the economic structure of developed nations.
p. 41 World Systems Theory
sociological theorists: driven by a desire for higher profits and greater wealth, owners and managers of capitalist firms enter poor countries on the periphery of the world economy in search of land, raw materials, labor, and new consumer markets. In the past, this market penetration was assisted by colonial regimes that administered poor regions for the benefit of economic interests in colonizing societies. Today it is made possible by neocolonial governments and multinational firms that perpetuate the power of national elites who either participate in the world economy as capitalist themselves, or offer their nation’s resources to global firms on acceptable terms.
p. 43 network theory
migrant networks are sets of interpersonal ties that connect migrants, former migrants, and nonmigrants in origin and destination areas through ties of kinship, friendship and shared community origin.
p. 44 institutional theory
p. 46 cumulative causation
p. 49 migration systems theory
p. 63 International Migration in Political Perspective
p. 89 On International Migration and International Relations
Theories of international migration pay remarkably little attention to state interventions, while the literature on international relations says relatively little about population movements, except insofar as the refugee phenomenon is described as an outcome of conflicts. How do state actions shape population movements, when do such movements lead to conflicts and when to cooperation, and what do governments do in their domestic policies to adjust to or influence population flows are questions that have received for too little attention.
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