Political economy of global remittances gender, governmentality and neoliberalism
"Over the last decade, a new phenomenon has emerged within the international community: the Global Remittances Trend (GRT). Thereby, government institutions, international (financial) organisations, NGOs and private sector actors have become interested in migration and remittances and their pot...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
Routledge
2011
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| Schriftenreihe: | RIPE Series in global political economy
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Over the last decade, a new phenomenon has emerged within the international community: the Global Remittances Trend (GRT). Thereby, government institutions, international (financial) organisations, NGOs and private sector actors have become interested in migration and remittances and their potential for poverty reduction and development, and have started to devise institutions and policies to harness this potential. This book employs a gender-sensitive governmentality analysis to trace the emergence of the GRT, to map its conceptual and institutional elements, and to examine its broader implications. Through an analysis of the GRT at the international level, combined with an in-depth case study on Mexico, this book demonstrates that the GRT is instrumental in spreading and deepening specific forms of gendered neoliberal governmentality |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [193] - 208 |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 220 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780415747660 978-0-415-74766-0 9780415590624 978-0-415-59062-4 9780203816714 978-0-203-81671-4 |