Global Migration Beyond Limits: Ecology, Economics and Political Economy
Author: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Print Length: 322 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Economics, Geography, Political Science, Migration & Refugee Studies
Area: Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South/Latin America
Topic: Ecology & Climate, Climate Change, Economy, Equality & Inequality, Structural Injustice, System, Migration, Refugees & Forced Migration, Politics & Power, Geopolitics, Globalization, Justice, Environmental Justice, Social Justice, Sustainability, Land & Property, Identity, Class, Ethnic & Ethnicity, Gender, Race
Global Migration beyond Limits takes a critical approach to mainstream economic accounts of migration, environment, and inequality. Drawing on a range of case studies from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, Obeng-Odoom argues that much of the crisis of migration can be understood as a reflection of cumulative stratification at different scales in the global system, though the form of migration is conditioned by more than economic forces. Examining the experiences of migrant farmers, street workers, refugees, international students, and many more, this book shows that the so-called migration crisis is an expression of a political-economic system in which socially created value is privately appropriated as rents by a privileged few who use institutions such as land and property rights, race, ethnicity, class, and gender to keep others in their place.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Figures
List of Tables
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
Bibliography
Index
Franklin Obeng-Odoom is currently Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is a Fellow of the Teachers’ Academy, the highest recognition bestowed on distinguished teachers at the university. A winner of the Deborah Gerner Innovative Teaching Award for ‘effective… pedagogy that engages students with issues of war, peace, identity, sovereignty, security, and sustainability’, Obeng-Odoom previously taught at various universities in Australia. His research interests are centred on the political economy of development, urban and regional economics, natural resources and the environment, fields in which he has published six sole-authored books, including Global Migration Beyond Limits (Oxford University Press, 2022), The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Toronto Press, 2021), and Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020), a winner of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy Joan Robinson Best Book Prize.
Source: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/franklin-obeng-odoom
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