Creative State : : Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico / / Natasha Iskander.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had policies in place. Morocco and Mexico feature...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 9 halftones, 8 tables, 7 charts/graphs, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Acronyms
  • Maps
  • Timeline
  • 1. Introduction: Interpretive Engagement in Morocco and Mexico
  • 2. Discretionary State Seeing: Emigration Policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963
  • 3. Reaching Out: Beginning a Conversation with Moroccan Emigrants, 1963- 1973
  • 4. Relational Awareness and Controlling Relationships: Moroccan State Engagement with Moroccan Emigrants, 1974- 1990
  • 5. Practice and Power: Emigrants and Development in the Moroccan Souss
  • 6. Process as Resource: Two Kings and the Politics of Rural Development
  • 7. The Reluctant Conversationalist: The Mexican Government's Discontinuous Engagement with Mexican Americans, 1968- 2000
  • 8. From Interpretation to Political Movement: State- Migrant Engagement in Zacatecas
  • 9. The Relationship between "Seeing" and "Interpreting": The Mexican Government's Interpretive Engagement with Mexican Migrants
  • 10. Conclusion: Creating the Creative State
  • Appendix: Methodology
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index