Seminar - Nicola Phillips
Migration as Development Strategy?
The New Political Economy of Dispossession and Inequality in the Americas”
Seminar with
Nicola Phillips, Professor of Political Economy, University of Manchester.
Migration is coming to be articulated explicitly by policy makers and government in the Caribbean basin as both a formal national 'development strategy' and the dominant foundation for the insertion of the region's economies and societies into the new transnational division of labour. This paper offers a critical assessment of this positioning of migration as development strategy in the region, arguing that it reflects a transnationalised and nationalised mode of 'accumulation by dispossession' which has propelled the emergence of a new political economy of inequality in the region.
Participation is free of charge but as space is limited, participants are kindly asked to register no later than Tuesday 27 March 2007 at