Globalisation and Migration

This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective. It examines the current shifts in the global political economy and the effects it has, for example, in relation to rural displacement. When and how does this lead to national and/or transnational migration? We need to examine the ways in which migration is cut across and impacts on the generation of racism and xenophobia in the west. The issue of remittances by migrants to the 'developing' nations needs careful study as does the controversial issue of 'brain drain' versus 'brain gain' through migration. The growing importance of trafficking for forced labour has now been taken up by various international bodies but is it the new normality or simply an unfortunate side effect of globalisation to be overcome through legislation? Migration is becoming increasingly gendered in its composition and flows but also in the receiving countries where men and women do very different jobs. We can predict the increasing racialization and gendering of migration but how will the state and society respond to these shifts? This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Ronaldo Munck is based at Dublin City University and is a well-known specialist on labour in the era of globalisation.

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