Global Migration beyond Limits

Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy

Franklin Obeng-Odoom (University of Helsinki)

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English

Oxford University Press
03 March 2022

Labour economics; Economic growth; Development economics

Global Migration beyond Limits takes a critical approach to mainstream economic accounts of migration, environment, and inequality. Drawing on a range of case studies from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, Obeng-Odoom argues that much of the crisis of migration can be understood as a reflection of cumulative stratification at different scales in the global system, though the form of migration is conditioned by more than economic forces. Examining the experiences of migrant farmers, street workers, refugees, international students, and many more, this book shows that the so-called migration crisis is an expression of a political-economic system in which socially created value is privately appropriated as rents by a privileged few who use institutions such land and property rights, race, ethnicity, class, and gender to keep others in their place.

By: Franklin Obeng-Odoom (University of Helsinki)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 626g
ISBN: 9780198867180
ISBN 10: 0198867182
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 03 March 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Unleashed 2: Problematic Explanations 3: Towards a New Framework 4: Internal Migration 5: Economic Crises and Global Migration 6: The Migrant Town 7: Working with Hosts 8: Education and Experience 9: Remittances and Return 10: The Promised Land

Franklin Obeng-Odoom is the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science Associate Professor with Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland, where he has been named a Permanent Member of the Teachers' Academy, the highest recognition bestowed on distinguished teachers at the university. Previously, he taught at various universities in Australia, including the University of Technology Sydney where he was Director of Higher Degree Research Programmes. Obeng-Odoom's research and teaching interests are centred on the political economy of development, urban and regional economics, natural resources, and the environment, fields in which he has written six sole-authored books, including Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge, 2020) and The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society (University of Toronto Press, 2021).