Globalisation, Governance and Migration: an introduction

Munck, Ronaldo

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“…Most of the world's undocumented migrants stemming from the Global South tend to end up in regions close to their sending countries, with only a small percentage finding their way to the Global North (IOM, 2008). This has not prevented a societal discourse arising in the North, however, which proclaims a sharp surge in the numbers of people illegally residing there and which often associates migrant populations with social ills or cultural disassociation (Munck, 2008). Migrants tend to become scapegoats for rising levels of crime, the spread of disease or changes in host societies' employment security.…”

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Migration Regimes and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Southern Africa

Cornelissen

2009

The Round Table

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The issue of migration and in particular the increase in irregular or undocumented migration has become highly politicised in Southern Africa. This has involved a rise in social intolerance towards migrant populations and outright xenophobia in many countries. This brief article examines the dynamics and complexities of migration in current-day Southern Africa and contextualises it in relation to the most salient issues, discourses and practices that characterise migration governance at the international level. The article highlights that predominant approaches to the governance of migration in the region reflect some of the dynamics which have marked migration discourse and praxis in the international sphere, but that they also carry some distinct characteristics. Trends of securitisation and related exclusionary practices of citizenship, which have become more pronounced in the international sphere, are emulated in Southern Africa. State and societal processes and reactions to higher levels of regional migration have created a context in which social polarisation and the entrenchment of difference prevails. This has meant that prime questions about how to ameliorate the socio-economic and political circumstances which evoke migrant flows in the first instance, and on how to deal with the inefficiencies in Southern Africa's current migration policies, have remained largely unasked by the region's rulers. Overall, Southern Africa's migration regime evidences two contradictory thrusts, one which seeks to encourage closer regional and specifically economic integration, and the other which resists the assumed threats posed to national sovereignty by increased migrant flows and which leads to a fractious regional governance system.

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Migration Regimes and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Southern Africa

Cornelissen

2009

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“…Nevertheless, the level of impacts projected for many Asian societies already struggling to manage environmental hazards and depleted resources could often require adaptation responses exceeding local capacities (Dilley et al, 2005). As large, poor populations, experience significant environmental change that exceeds thresholds While economic migration is improving opportunities for millions of people within source and destination countries in Asia, many other people are not able to exploit opportunities from greater mobility (Munck, 2009). For example, there is often insufficient resourcing and political will to provide effective emergency shelter and permanent housing for people affected by environmental hazards (Kelman et al, 2011).…”

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“…As the expectation of humanity to be able to move to make a better life has risen dramatically during the last twenty years, many millions are benefitting hugely from the liberalisation of movement (Munck, 2009). However, another large group of people who are mobile or would wish to cross international borders to seek a better life are either extremely limited in their opportunities for resettlement or must confront persecution and alienation to achieve their goal.…”

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Limits to adaptation or a second modernity? Responses to climate change risk in the context of failing socio-ecosystems

Bardsley

2014

Environ Dev Sustain

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Springer is a green publisher, as we allow self-archiving, but most importantly we are fully transparent about your rights. Publishing in a subscription-based journal AbstractThere is a concerning fallacy at the heart of the debate on climate change adaptation -that adaptation will involve re-adjustments primarily on the periphery of functioning socioecological systems. Yet, dominant modern systems are already in crisis. Case study examples from research across global, continental and regional scales are used to argue that gaps between sustainability goals and outcomes are already significant. Analyses of food security, human migration and natural resource management systems indicate that climate change forms only part of failing relationships between people and their environments. There is a need to transform socio-ecosystems so that they become resilient in the context of broader learning on environmental uncertainty, variability, change and risk. Such transformations will occur both in situ, to ensure that local environments are not further degraded or people entrenched in failing systems, and ex situ, as people, systems and infrastructure become increasingly mobile to deal with changing circumstances.

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“…Baerenholdt, 2013, Cresswell, 2006Urry, 2007). Migration studies scholars, on the other hand, have offered us insights into geographical migration, traditionally with a focus on 'low skilled/low paid migrants' and the 'global elites' (Favell et al, 2007;Munck, 2008). More recently, analyses of the working and living conditions of 'highly skilled migrants' have also gained momentum (e.g.…”

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‘Moving to stay in the same place?’ Academics and theatrical artists as exemplars of the ‘mobile middle’

Loacker

Śliwa

2016

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This paper provides insights into mobility in the context of geographical, economic, professional, temporal and imaginary movements of academics and theatrical artists.It explores how these dimensions of mobility intersect in the narratives of academics and theatrical artists, thereby producing a position 'in between' choice and necessity, and privilege and disadvantage with regard to movement. The analysis shows how both academics and theatrical artists engage in mobility to secure, maintain or improve their professional and economic position. On this basis, we suggest that they are part of an emerging category of professionals: the 'mobile middle', for whom mobility is a crucial part and principle of life. We argue that the phenomenon of the 'mobile middle' and mobility in general have wide-ranging implications for our understanding of contemporary careers, work and life organization.

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Globalisation, Governance and Migration: an introduction

Cited by 80 publications

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Migration Regimes and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Southern Africa

Migration Regimes and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Southern Africa

Limits to adaptation or a second modernity? Responses to climate change risk in the context of failing socio-ecosystems

‘Moving to stay in the same place?’ Academics and theatrical artists as exemplars of the ‘mobile middle’

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