Ethnicity and Globalization or India

Ethnicity and Globalization

Author: Stephen Castles

". . . With its generally clear exposition and a structure that is logical and even dramatic, this illuminating book deserves wide use in the classroom and beyond."
--CANADIAN REVIEW OF STUDIES IN NATIONALISM, XXIX (2002)

This book, written by one of the leading authorities on migration, traces the growth of global migration since 1945, showing how it has produced fundamental economic, social and cultural changes in most parts of the world. Using techniques of comparative analysis the book shows the gap between global migration and policy. As the postwar demand for labour outstripped supply, flows of ethnic migration were encouraged throughout the developed Western countries. The rooting of new ethnicities in different soils was neither planned or managed effectively. The book shows how the economic demand for work has been supplemented by the demand from asylum seekers to recognize injustice and oppression. The book also examines the emergence of multicultural societies and the impact of this on traditional concepts of citizenship, culture and identity.

Table of Contents:

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Thirty Years of Research on Migration and Multicultural Societies PART TWO: WESTERN EUROPE: THE 'GUESTS' WHO STAYED The Function of Labour Migration in Western Europe The Social Time-Bomb
Education of an Underclass in West Germany The Guest-Worker in Western Europe
An Obituary PART THREE: THE GLOBALIZATION OF MIGRATION Migration and Minorities in Europe
Perspectives for the 1990s - Eleven Hypotheses Contract Labour Migration Migrations in the Asia-Pacific Region
Before and After the Crisis Globalization and Migration
Some Pressing Contradictions PART FOUR: MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES AS A CHALLENGE TO THE NATION-STATE Multicultural Citizenship
The Australian Experience Explaining Racism in the New Germany The Racisms of Globalization Citizenship and the Other in the Age of Migration

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India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity

Author: Jean Drez

India's success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite limited. Recent diagnoses of this failure of policy have concentrated on the counterproductive role of government regulation, and on the need for economic incentives to accelerate the growth of the economy. This book argues that an assessment of India's failure to eliminate basic deprivations has to go beyond this limited focus, and to take note of the role played in that failure by inadequate public involvement in the provision of basic education, health care, social security, and related fields, Even the fostering of fast and participatory economic growth requires some basic social change, which is not addressed by liberalization and economic incentives. The authors also discuss the historical antecedents of these political and social neglects, including the distortion of policy priorities arising from inequalities of political power. Following on from this, the book considers the scope for public action to address these earlier biases and achieve a transformation of policy priorities.

Beginning with an introductory chapter presenting the motivation, focus, and approach of the book, it discusses the respective roles of the market mechanism and government action in economic development and discusses the particular role of public involvement in the fields of health and education. International comparisons of development experiences are brought to bear on the diagnosis of India's successes and failures, and the work discusses the lessons to be learnt from the contrasting development experiences of different states within India, with particular attention to Kerala's outstanding success in socialfields. The authors consider the role of public action and political organization in promoting social opportunities. Attention is drawn, in particular, to the part played by widespread illiteracy in suppressing that process and perpetuating social inequalities. The work also looks at the issue of basic education, including a critical assessment of public policy in this field. The issue of gender inequality is discussed, and the role of women's agency in the expansion of social opportunities for both women and men is explored. The work concludes by consolidating the argument and discussing the policy implication of the analyses presented. A statistical appendix presents a comparative picture of India and other developing countries, and also the comparative performance of different states within India.

This new work by two internationally renowned economists is an important and relevant argument for promoting human welfare.