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Informationen zum Autor Ronaldo Munck is based at Dublin City University and is a well-known specialist on labour in the era of globalisation. Klappentext Examines the issues and politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective. This title also examines the shifts in the global political economy and the effects it has! for example! in relation to rural displacement. Zusammenfassung Migration is becoming one of the key globe governance issues today. Migration represents the interface between the Third World and the First. We need to understand better the complexity of global migration trends and their social and political implications. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Globalisation, Governance and Migration: an introduction 2. Globalisation, International Labour Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers 3. The Ideal Immigrant? Gendered class subjects in Philippine–Canada migration 4. Feminisation of Migration and the Social Dimensions of Development: the Asian case 5. The Myth of Invasion: the inconvenient realities of African migration to Europe 6. Globalisation and Migrant Labour in a ‘Rainbow Nation’: a fortress South Africa? 7. ‘Keeping Them in Their Place’: the ambivalent relationship between development and migration in Africa 8. Capitalist Restructuring, Development and Labour Migration: the Mexico–US case 9. The Violence of Development and the Migration/Insecurities Nexus: labour migration in a North American context 10. ‘Remittances are Beautiful’? Gender implications of the new global remittances trend 11. Development and Return Migration: from policy panacea to migrant perspective sustainability 12. Migrant Workers in the ILO’s Global Alliance Against Forced Labour Report: a critical appraisal 13. Towards a Theory of Illegal Migration: historical and structural components
