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The Seed and the Fertile Soil: Re-examining the Migration-Development Nexus through the Lens of Gender

In: Under Development: Gender

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  • Christine Catarino
  • Laura Oso

Abstract

After inciting debates, controversy and numerous academic works as well as reports by international organisations, the migration-development nexus fell somewhat out of favour and out of fashion, only to be revisited and overhauled in the past few years in both the political sphere and the world of research (Haas, 2010). Until the dawn of this century, most works adopted an economic perspective, focusing in particular on the scale of immigrants’ monetary transfers, on the forms these remittances took and their prices, on the so-called productive types of investment implemented, and on their impact on local development (see the review of the literature by Montoya Zavala, 2006). Consequently, these studies analysed the migration-development nexus from the angle of production and emphasised the role played by men. Metaphorically speaking, we could say that they approached the migration dynamic from the perspective of the seed, concentrating on the productive sphere without considering its links with the reproductive sphere, which we could figuratively term the “fertile soil”.5

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  • Christine Catarino & Laura Oso, 2014. "The Seed and the Fertile Soil: Re-examining the Migration-Development Nexus through the Lens of Gender," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Christine Verschuur & Isabelle Guérin & Hélène Guétat-Bernard (ed.), Under Development: Gender, chapter 9, pages 192-210, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-1-137-35682-6_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137356826_10
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