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Continuities and Change in IPE at the Start of the Twenty-first Century Read chapter Read first chapter

2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

12. International Migrations, Diasporas, and Remittances

Author : James Busumtwi-Sam

Published in: The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

International migrations, diasporas, and remittances represent significant but poorly understood sources of reordering in contemporary International Political Economy (IPE). International migration patterns, diaspora social formations, and remittance transfers are diverse in their sources, channels, social composition, and social effects, which in relation to the IPE of development, pose unanswered questions and unaddressed policy challenges. These include questionable assumptions/classifications of migrants and the periodic alarms over purported ‘migration crises’, the conflation of ‘migrants’ and ‘diasporas’, and the treatment of the latter as homogenous bounded groups defined primarily by their nationality/ethnicity, and the arbitrary categories used to report remittances. While welcoming the increased attention paid to international migrations, diasporas, and remittances, this chapter cautions against overly optimistic and pessimistic assessments of their ability to produce positive development outcomes.

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Footnotes
1
The term ‘international migrations’ excludes migration within the borders of states and internal displacement.
 
2
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), International Labour Organization (ILO), UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and World Bank are the main sources of official data on international migration.
 
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Metadata
Title
International Migrations, Diasporas, and Remittances
Author
James Busumtwi-Sam
Copyright Year
2019
Book
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-45442-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-45443-0

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45443-0_12