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“alice bloch”

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  • Sans Papiers

    The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants

    by Alice Bloch, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter ...
    Undocumented migration is a huge global phenomenon, yet little is known about the reality of life for those involved. Sans Papiers combines a contemporary account of the theoretical and policy debates with an in-depth exploration of the lived experiences of undocumented migrants in the UK from Zimbabwe, China, Brazil, Ukraine and Turkish Kurdistan.Built around their voices, the book provides the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living on the Margins

    Undocumented Migrants in a Global City

    by Alice Bloch, Sonia McKay ...
    Living on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or ‘irregular’) migrants living in London, and their employers. Breaking new ground, this topical book exposes the contradictions in policies, which marginalise and criminalise these migrants, while promoting exploitative labour market policies. However, the book reveals that the migrants can be active agents in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Forced Migration

    Current Issues and Debates

    Edited by Alice Bloch, Giorgia Dona ...
    Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates provides a critical engagement with and analysis of contemporary issues in the field using inter-disciplinary perspectives, through different geographical case studies and by employing varying methodologies. The combination of authors reviewing both the key research and scholarship and offering insights from their own research ensures a comprehensive ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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    Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and ... Read more

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  • Local and Regional Development

    by Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, John Tomaney ...
    Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi ... Read more

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  • Global Governance and the New Wars

    The Merging of Development and Security

    by Mark Duffield ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse. Aid agencies have become increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution and the social reconstruction of war-torn societies. Duffield explores the consequences of this growing merger ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    by Agnieszka Weinar, Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. Highly-skilled migrations are arguably the only non-controversial migrant category in political and public discourse. The common perception is that highly-skilled migrants are high ... Read more

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  • Africa's Urban Revolution

    by Doctor Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell ...
    The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural place. This lack of awareness and robust analysis means it is difficult to make a policy case for a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development

    Edited by Wil Hout, Richard Robison ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    This book is about the way ‘governance’ has become the new orthodoxy of development, following earlier failed attempts at building working market economies through policy reform in developing countries.Considering how its proponents define ‘good governance’, the contributors to this volume assess why programmes of governance building in developing countries have proven to be no less problematic ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy

    Edited by Tobias Schumacher, Andreas Marchetti, Thomas Demmelhuber ...
    The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU’s most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field.Coherently structured and adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this handbook covers the most important themes, developments and dynamics in the EU’s neighbourhood policy framework through a series of cutting ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Cities and Development

    by Sean Fox, Tom Goodfellow ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban habitation is more or less complete. But in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, urban populations are expanding rapidly. Current UN projections indicate that virtually all population growth in the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Africa's Return Migrants

    The New Developers?

    Edited by Lisa Åkesson, Maria Eriksson Baaz ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country. In the wake of economic crises in the developed world, alongside rapid economic growth in parts of Africa, the impetus to 'return' is likely to increase. Such returnees are often portrayed as agents of development, bringing with them capital, knowledge and skills as well as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD