Diaspora Development And Democracy

Author : Devesh Kapur
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691162119

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Diaspora, Development, and Democracy by Devesh Kapur Pdf

What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries. Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a simplistic "brain drain"--migration's impact greatly depends on who leaves and why. The book offers new methods and empirical evidence for measuring these traits and shows how data about these characteristics link to specific outcomes. For instance, the positive selection of Indian migrants through education has strengthened India's democracy by creating a political space for previously excluded social groups. Because older Indian elites have an exit option, they are less likely to resist the loss of political power at home. Education and training abroad has played an important role in facilitating the flow of expertise to India, integrating the country into the world economy, positively shaping how India is perceived, and changing traditional conceptions of citizenship. The book highlights a paradox--while international migration is a cause and consequence of globalization, its effects on countries of origin depend largely on factors internal to those countries. A rich portrait of the Indian migrant community, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy explores the complex political and economic consequences of migration for the countries migrants leave behind.

Author : Olga Oleinikova,Jumana Bayeh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000710847

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Democracy, Diaspora, Territory by Olga Oleinikova,Jumana Bayeh Pdf

This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory. Considering democracy and diaspora through a deterritorialised lens, it takes the post-Euromaidan Ukraine as a central case study to show how modern diasporas are actively involved in shaping democracy from a distance, and through their political activity are becoming increasingly democratised themselves. An examination of how power-sharing democracies function beyond the territorial state, Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics compels us to reassess what we mean by democracy and diaspora today, and why we need to focus on the deterritorialised dimensions of these phenomena if we are to adequately address the crises confronting numerous democracies. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in migration and diaspora, political theory, citizenship and democracy.

Author : Claire Sutherland,Elena Barabantseva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415847036

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Diaspora and Citizenship by Claire Sutherland,Elena Barabantseva Pdf

This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and directions in which diasporic and migrant communities impact on the citizenship regime in their country of settlement, the papers in this volume approach the study of citizenship from the perspective of the link between the sending state and its diasporic communities abroad. The papers discuss the role of language, religion, kinship, and other ethnic markers in diaspora politics and trace their implications for the articulations and practices of citizenship. Through discussing cases across political and geographical spectrums, and from different historical epochs the book broadens and enriches the debate on citizenship by demonstrating important ways in which diasporas impact on the delineation of citizenship regimes and the politics of national identity in their homeland. This links to the continued use of language as an ethnic marker, but also one which may be learned, allowing a certain degree of choice and shifting affiliations amongst putative members of a diaspora. This book was published as a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Author : Ulf Johansson Dahre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Afrikansk diaspora / sao
ISBN : 9172672374

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The Role of Diasporas in Peace, Democracy and Development in the Horn of Africa by Ulf Johansson Dahre Pdf

Author : Mauro Buccheri,Gabriele Pietro Scardellato,Fahimul Quadir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988916011

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Towards a Democratic Cosmopolis by Mauro Buccheri,Gabriele Pietro Scardellato,Fahimul Quadir Pdf

Author : Sonia Plaza,Dilip Ratha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821382585

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Diaspora for Development in Africa by Sonia Plaza,Dilip Ratha Pdf

The diaspora of developing countries can be a potent force for development, through remittances, but more importantly, through promotion of trade, investment, knowledge and technology transfers. The book aims to consolidate research and evidence on these issues with a view to formulating policies in both sending and receiving countries.

Author : Atul Kohli
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198068476

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Democracy and Development in India by Atul Kohli Pdf

The essays in this volume are organized thematically in three sections-political change; political economy; and politics and development in select states. The introductory essay acts as an 'umbrella' to these essays and represents twenty-five years of scholarly research by distinguished political scientist Atul Kohli.

Author : Samir Kumar Das
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351175241

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Migrations, Identities and Democratic Practices in India by Samir Kumar Das Pdf

This book explores contesting identities, international politics, migration and democratic practices in the context of globalizing India. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, it looks at one of the oldest migratory routes across a volatile region in eastern India which is fraught with violent claims of separate statehood. The book offers an account of how the ‘North Bengal’ region has acted as a gateway to migrant populations over time and points to why it must be understood as a shifting and liminal space through a study of Bodoland, Gorkhaland, Kamatapuri, Siliguri and the Greater Cooch Behar movements. It shows the region’s politics of identity or quest for homeland not as a means of compensating for the lack or absence of identity, but as an everyday practice of living that very absence, across borders and boundaries, without arriving at any definitive and stable identity, along with impacts and manifestations in democratic political processes. A major intervention in modern political theory – shedding new light on concepts such as home and homeland, space and self, sovereignty, nation-state, freedom and democracy – this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political science, modern South Asian history, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.

Author : Jasmin Hasić,Dženeta Karabegović
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030056544

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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Since Independence by Jasmin Hasić,Dženeta Karabegović Pdf

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post-conflict country with an active agency in international affairs. Bridging academic and policy debates, the book summarizes and further examines the first twenty-five years of BiH’s foreign policy following the country’s independence from Yugoslavia in 1992. Topics covered include conflict and post-conflict periods, Euro-Atlantic integration, political affairs on both local and regional levels, integration with a variety of international organizations and actors, neighboring states, bilateral relations with relevant other states including the United States, Russia, selected EU countries, and Turkey, as well as BiH’s diaspora. The book highlights that despite their apparent weakness, post-conflict states have agency to carry out foreign policy goals and engage with the international sphere, including in geopolitics, and thus provides a novel insight into weak states and their role in international politics.

Author : Sukanya Banerjee,Aims McGuinness,Steven C. McKay
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253006011

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New Routes for Diaspora Studies by Sukanya Banerjee,Aims McGuinness,Steven C. McKay Pdf

“Offers a welcome addition to the literature on migration by using the springboard of ‘diaspora’ to address the cross-border movements of people.” —Rhacel Parreñas, Brown University Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas and immigration in the United States, the contributors interrogate ideas of displacement, return, and place of origin as they relate to diasporic identity. They also consider how practices of commensality become grounds for examining identity and difference and how narrative and aesthetic forms emerge through the context of diaspora. Contributions by Crispin Bates, Martin A. Berger, Rachel Ida Buff, Marina Carter, Betty Joseph, Parama Roy, Jenny Sharpe, Todd Shepard, and Lok Siu

Author : William Safran,Ajaya Sahoo,Brij V. Lal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317967705

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Transnational Migrations by William Safran,Ajaya Sahoo,Brij V. Lal Pdf

This book studies Indian diaspora, currenlty 20 million across the world, from various perspectives. It looks at the 'transnational' nature of the middle class worker. Other aspects include: post 9/11 challenges; ethnicity in USA; cultural identity versus national identity; gender issues amongst the diaspora communities. It argues that Indian middle classes have the unique advantages of skills, mobility, cultural rootedness and ethics of hard-work.

Author : Prema A. Kurien
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 081353089X

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Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity by Prema A. Kurien Pdf

She argues that in each case, a community-specific nexus of religion, gender, and status shaped migration and was, in turn, transformed by it."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sanjoy Chakravorty,Devesh Kapur,Nirvikar Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190648749

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The Other One Percent by Sanjoy Chakravorty,Devesh Kapur,Nirvikar Singh Pdf

One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary, but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the most-educated and highest-income group in the world's most advanced nation. The Other One Percent is a careful, data-driven, and comprehensive account of the three core processes-selection, assimilation, and entrepreneurship-that have led to this rapid rise. This unique phenomenon is driven by-and, in turn, has influenced-wide-ranging changes, especially the on-going revolution in information technology and its impact on economic globalization, immigration policies in the U.S., higher education policies in India, and foreign policies of both nations. If the overall picture is one of economic success, the details reveal the critical issues faced by Indian immigrants stemming from the social, linguistic, and class structure in India, their professional and geographic distribution in the U.S., their pan-Indian and regional identities, their strong presence in both high-skill industries (like computers and medicine) and low-skill industries (like hospitality and retail trade), and the multi-generational challenges of a diverse group from the world's largest democracy fitting into its oldest.

Author : Melissa Phillips,Louise Olliff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030978662

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Understanding Diaspora Development by Melissa Phillips,Louise Olliff Pdf

This book brings together new research that engages with the concept of diaspora from a uniquely Australian perspective and provides a timely contribution to the development of research-informed policy, both in the Australian context and more broadly. It builds on the understanding of the complex drivers and domains of diaspora transnationalism and its implications for countries and people striving to develop human capabilities in a globally interconnected but also fractured world. The chapters showcase a wide range of diaspora experiences from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia. This work demonstrates the usefulness of diaspora as a concept to explore the experiences of migrant and refugee communities in Australia and the Pacific and further understanding on the peacebuilding, conflict, economic, humanitarian and political engagements of diaspora communities globally. The insights and findings from the breadth of research featured shed light on broader debates about diasporas, migration and development, and transnationalism.

Author : Amy Chua
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400076376

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World on Fire by Amy Chua Pdf

The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.