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Gender, Development and Global Householding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2010

Suzanne Bergeron
Suzanne Bergeron
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University of Michigan, Dearborn
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That issues related to migration and global householding are finally being taken seriously by mainstream development institutions is clear from the focus of the United Nation's 2009 Human Development Report. Subtitled Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development, it is the first major intergovernmental organization publication to view transnational mobility as integral to human development. The report makes a strong case for recognizing that the impact of migration in relation to development aims is significant for both sending and receiving countries. As the report states repeatedly, the old nation-centered growth and antipoverty frameworks and policies no longer fit when migrants work in one country yet send remittances that reduce poverty and promote human development in another country. Similarly, global householding—the reconfiguration of household and family arrangements as people move across national boundaries—necessitates new frameworks for understanding human livelihood strategies at the micro level. In addition to making the case for taking transnational mobility seriously in development policy, the report offers a set of recommendations that are centered on migration management, regularization, and liberalization policies, such as bilateral temporary workers' agreements that allow nations to enhance growth and competitiveness while simultaneously securing their borders.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 2010 , pp. 281 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2010

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