The Double Pincer of Migration: Revisiting the Migration and Development Nexus through a Spatial Lens

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Main Author: Paolo Novak
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Language:en
Published: Universidad de los Andes 2016
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contents The Double Pincer of Migration: Revisiting the Migration and Development Nexus through a Spatial Lens Paolo Novak Política Space ( esaurus ) migration and development nexus geographies of development agency ( author’s keywords ) The paper examines contemporary conceptualisations of the migration and development nexus, using a spatial lens. It challenges mainstream conceptualisations based on static and bounded understandings of space and place; it incorporates Marxist and postcolonial understandings of migration and development; and it politicises the way in which this nexus can be conceptualised. e double pincer of migration is a metaphor that captures the freedom to follow capital, the selection performed by regulatory mechanisms that prevent such freedom from fully realising itself, and the agency of migrants treading the pincer, who, while being caught up by the structural forces shaping the double pincer, render it uid and selectively enabling. 2016 artículo científico 0121-5612 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81247545003 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/812/81247545003/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/812/81247545003/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/812/81247545003/81247545003.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/812/81247545003/movil en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=812 Colombia Internacional application/pdf Universidad de los Andes Colombia Internacional (Colombia) Num.88
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spellingShingle The Double Pincer of Migration: Revisiting the Migration and Development Nexus through a Spatial Lens
Paolo Novak
Política
Space ( esaurus )
migration and development
nexus geographies of development agency ( author’s keywords )
The Double Pincer of Migration: Revisiting the Migration and Development Nexus through a Spatial Lens Paolo Novak Política Space ( esaurus ) migration and development nexus geographies of development agency ( author’s keywords ) The paper examines contemporary conceptualisations of the migration and development nexus, using a spatial lens. It challenges mainstream conceptualisations based on static and bounded understandings of space and place; it incorporates Marxist and postcolonial understandings of migration and development; and it politicises the way in which this nexus can be conceptualised. e double pincer of migration is a metaphor that captures the freedom to follow capital, the selection performed by regulatory mechanisms that prevent such freedom from fully realising itself, and the agency of migrants treading the pincer, who, while being caught up by the structural forces shaping the double pincer, render it uid and selectively enabling. 2016 artículo científico 0121-5612 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81247545003 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/812/81247545003/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/812/81247545003/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/812/81247545003/81247545003.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/812/81247545003/movil en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=812 Colombia Internacional application/pdf Universidad de los Andes Colombia Internacional (Colombia) Num.88
title The Double Pincer of Migration: Revisiting the Migration and Development Nexus through a Spatial Lens
topic Política
Space ( esaurus )
migration and development
nexus geographies of development agency ( author’s keywords )
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