Global Migration beyond Limits

Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Helsinki) Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science Associate Professor with Global Development Studies, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science Associate Professor with Global Development Studies

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-09
Mått162 x 240 x 23 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor322
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198867180

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Franklin Obeng-Odoom is the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science Associate Professor with Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland, where he has been named a Permanent Member of the Teachers' Academy, the highest recognition bestowed on distinguished teachers at the university. Previously, he taught at various universities in Australia, including the University of Technology Sydney where he was Director of Higher Degree Research Programmes. Obeng-Odoom's research and teaching interests are centred on the political economy of development, urban and regional economics, natural resources, and the environment, fields in which he has written six sole-authored books, including Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge, 2020) and The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society (University of Toronto Press, 2021).

Global Migration beyond Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy is an important contribution to the literature on global migration. What impresses is how Obeng-Odoom roams across continents to probe the many aspects of global immigration. His gaze moves from the global to the national to the city and to the suburb and neighbourhood. His institutionalist focus enables him to highlight the incapacity of neoclassical economic theory to understand the complexities and contradictions of global migration and permits his book to offer critical insights blinkered from the gaze and discourses of the conservative critics of immigration.