Migration as development strategy? The new political economy of dispossession and inequality in the Americas

• Published in: Review of international political economy : RIPE Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 231 - 259
• Main Author: Phillips, Nicola
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Taylor & Francis Group 01.05.2009; Routledge; Taylor & Francis LLC
• Subjects: Accumulation; Americas; Caribbean; Caribbean basin; development; Development Strategies; Division of Labor; Economic development; Economic migration; Employment; Governance; inequality; International development; International political economy; Labor force; Labor migration; labor mobility; Latin America; Migrant labor; Migration; Political Economy; Political migration; Studies; transnational division of labor; Transnationalism; Caribbean area; Latin America

In the context of a severe contraction of 'development space' for Latin American and Caribbean economies in the global political economy, we are witnessing a novel and increasingly explicit articulation of migration as a national development strategy by governments in the region. This is p...