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Global Migration beyond Limits provides a citique of mainstream economic accounts of migration, environment, and inequality. Obeng-Odoom argues that migration is an expression of an unequal political-economic system rather than principally driven by regional and environmental factors.
List of contents
- 1: Unleashed
- 2: Problematic Explanations
- 3: Towards a New Framework
- 4: Internal Migration
- 5: Economic Crises and Global Migration
- 6: The Migrant Town
- 7: Working with Hosts
- 8: Education and Experience
- 9: Remittances and Return
- 10: The Promised Land
About the author
Franklin Obeng-Odoom is the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science Associate Professor with Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland, where he has been named a Permanent Member of the Teachers' Academy, the highest recognition bestowed on distinguished teachers at the university. Previously, he taught at various universities in Australia, including the University of Technology Sydney where he was Director of Higher Degree Research Programmes. Obeng-Odoom's research and teaching interests are centred on the political economy of development, urban and regional economics, natural resources, and the environment, fields in which he has written six sole-authored books, including Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge, 2020) and The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society (University of Toronto Press, 2021).
Summary
Global Migration beyond Limits provides a citique of mainstream economic accounts of migration, environment, and inequality. Obeng-Odoom argues that migration is an expression of an unequal political-economic system rather than principally driven by regional and environmental factors.
Additional text
The careful investigation, critique and evidence contained within this book provides a much-needed counter to ahistorical and atheoretical analyses of migration and offers a helpful addition to our understanding of these complicated and contentious processes.
