Thanh-dam Truong

Transnational Migration and Human Security: The Migration-Development-Security Nexus - Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace Thanh-dam Truong 2011 edition

Marc Notes: Through diverse experiences and case studies, this book places the migration-development-security nexus in the field of transnational studies. It approaches migration from a human-centered viewpoint, addressing the multi-faceted nature of 'security.'. Table of Contents: Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Part I Introduction.- Part II Neoliberal Governmentality and Transnational Migration: the Interplay of Security Fears and Business Forces.- Part III Migrant Experiences: Agency in the Grey Zone.- Part IV Transnational Identities and Issues of Citizenship.- Part V Ethics of Modern Day Transnational Migration: A Human SecurityPerspective.- Abbreviations.- Bibliography.- Biographies of Contributors.- Index. Biographical Note: Thanh-Dam Truong is co-ordinator of the research group on Migration and Human Security and Associate Professor in Women, Gender and Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Many of her publications address the nexus of gender, migration and human security, including: Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in Southeast Asia. Des Gasper is Professor of Human Development, Development Ethics and Public Policy at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Nether-lands. Previous work includes: (with Raymond Apthorpe): Arguing Development Policy Frames and Discourses (London: Frank Cass, 1996)."Jacket Description/Back: This volume addresses key aspects of human security in transnational migration. The 22 essays cover all levels of migration systems, from families, farms and firms through to global organizations and negotiating forums. They show how institutional frameworks for cross-border movements of people, finance, and goods have co-evolved with changes in the workings of nation-states. They thereby reveal aspects of power and privilege within international migration as a discursive area and at its intersections with the fields of development, governance and security . Revisiting presuppositions that have been taken as givens, and exploring their role in shaping rules and institutions that control the movements of people across and within borders, the essays reveal also the mentalities and rationalities that have made up and continue to make up the reality of transnational migration today. A human security perspective can encourage exploratory thinking and provide conceptual space for deeper understandings of human, movement and borders, to help overcome the limits of conventional analytical and policy dualisms and dichotomies."Publisher Marketing: The volume places the migration-development-security nexus in the field of transnational studies. Rather than treating these three categories as self-evident, the essays excavate aspects of power and privilege built into their governing frameworks and conflicting rationales apparent in practices of control. Bringing together diverse experiences and case studies, the volume highlights the problematic nature of maintaining distinct and disconnected frameworks of governance. It argues for a new approach that demonstrates the significance and usefulness of comparative ethics in conceptualising migration from a human-centered and gendered perspective in order to address the multi-facetted and multi-dimensional nature and meanings of "security."

Contributor Bio:  Gasper, Des Des Gasper is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, a centre of development studies where he is currently dean of teaching.