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A new look at the economics of migration : the causes and costs of transnationalism
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MWP; Video Lecture; 2019/04
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GREEN, Nancy L., A new look at the economics of migration : the causes and costs of transnationalism, MWP, Video Lecture, 2019/04 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/69101
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The politics of immigration and the history of (social and political) citizenship are important ways of examining how the state defines the Other. However, beyond the cultural implications of inclusion and exclusion, it is time to take another look at the history of the economics of migration. While the discourse on migration today emphasizes otherness, the economic factors of mobility have been forgotten. Yet the supply and demand of labour have historically underpinned movement, and immigrants have always been a bellwether of the political economy and historically important additions to national economies: industrial workers yesterday (more men), workers in the service and care industries today (more women). A new economics of mobility needs to re-examine (gendered) labour markets while understanding the choices and costs of migration to individuals, families, and states, from the family economy to the cost of credit to the “business” of migration (the intermediaries along the route), the costs of closure to the state (walls are expensive!), and the subcontracting of detention. Finally, the literal costs of citizenship can also be explored in a period in which citizenship is increasingly “for sale.”
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Lecture delivered at the European University Institute in Florence on 17 April 2019
A video interview with the presenter was recorded on 17 April 2019
A video interview with the presenter was recorded on 17 April 2019