I have to say that I never thought much about migration as an aspect of development before seeing your recent writing on it, but you've very much convinced me that migration policy needs a larger place in discussions of what development should look like. It's amazing, and sad, how these huge flows of remittances are invisible to many dev't people (myself previously included) just because they're not being directly provided by the West.
"Because the consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else." (Lucas 1988, On the Mechanics of Economic Development)
"The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point however is to change it" (Marx 1888)
Roving Bandit is a reference to Mancur Olson, not because I think I'm some kind of badass.
"represent the material embodiment of market discourses that run through the capillary structures of orgs that conform contemporary neoliberal ed policy" -- Education International
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I have to say that I never thought much about migration as an aspect of development before seeing your recent writing on it, but you've very much convinced me that migration policy needs a larger place in discussions of what development should look like. It's amazing, and sad, how these huge flows of remittances are invisible to many dev't people (myself previously included) just because they're not being directly provided by the West.
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