TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 50, Issue 4 (December 2007)

Migration and Development

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Upfront

Editorial: Beyond Us and Them: Migration and global economic development

Wendy Harcourt

Development 50: 1-5; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100439

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Thematic Section: Migration and the Challenge for Development

'The World is Becoming a More Dangerous Place': Culture and identity among Mexican migrants in the United States

Explores how migration is shaping a new world vision for Mexico.

Lourdes Arizpe

Development 50: 6-12; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100432

Transnational Migration, Gender and Human Security

Examines the global labour market for services and remittances based on a study in central Illinois.

Gale Summerfield

Development 50: 13-18; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100420

South–South Migration: Challenges for development and social policy

Addresses the missing linkages between various migrations, social development and social policy.

Katja Hujo and Nicola Piper

Development 50: 19-25; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100419

Migration and Social Protection: Exposing problems of access

Investigates the implications of legal, physical and political access structures to social protection

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Ian MacAuslan

Development 50: 26-32; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100429

Development and Displacement: Institutionalizing responsibility

Looks at involuntary resettlement considering the similarities between development and conflict displacements

Christopher McDowell and Gareth Morell

Development 50: 33-38; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100428

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Dialogue: Moving Beyond Rhetoric

Introducing Sex at the Margins

Reproduces excerpts from her new book

Laura Agustín

Development 50: 39-43; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100421

People on the Move: Challenging migration on NGOs, migrants and sex work categorization

Argues for a common standard of dignity, rights and security for all migrants, regardless of status or category

Alison Crosby

Development 50: 44-49; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100424

Open Migration and the Politics of Fear

Tackles some of the prejudices and fears underlying northern countries responses to migration

Brian Murphy

Development 50: 50-55; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100422

Europe, Migration and Development: Critical remarks on an emerging policy field

Outlines the shifts in European policy towards migration and development in the last years

Ferruccio Pastore

Development 50: 56-62; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100433

From Care Drain to Care Gain: Migration in Romania and Ukraine and the rise of transnational welfare

Argues that migration patterns are changing gendered social arrangements in old and new Europe

Flavia Piperno

Development 50: 63-68; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100431

The Making of Mobile Subjects: How migration and institutional reform intersect in northeast China

Shows how migration is used as a strategy in the new economic policies of China

Xiang Biao

Development 50: 69-74; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100430

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Local/Global Encounters: Development and Migration in sub-Saharan Africa

The New Age of Security: Implications for refugees and internally displaced persons in the Horn of Africa

Argues that the 'war against terrorism' entails major implications for migration

Cawo M Abdi

Development 50: 75-81; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100434

Shifting the Focus of Migration Back Home: Perspectives from Southern Africa

Raises three fundamental critiques about contemporary migration and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Loren B Landau and Darshan Vigneswaran

Development 50: 82-87; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100435

Migration and Regional Development in Kenya

Presents interrelated patterns of development and internal migration trends in Kenya

John O Oucho

Development 50: 88-93; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100425

Migration and Development: Mixed evidence from western Mali

Examines the impact of investment-oriented initiatives of Malian migrants back home

Flore Gubert

Development 50: 94-100; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100423

Structural Adjustment Programme and Public Health Issues in Relation to Migration: Nigeria

Discusses the public health implications of migration and the negative consequences for family life

Chinedum Uzoma Nwajiuba, Bertram E B Nwoke and Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba

Development 50: 101-105; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100436

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Book Shelf

Book Shelf

Reviews the latest literature on migration and development

Compiled by Angela Zarro

Development 50: 106-110; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100427

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Window on the World

Window on the World FREE

Presents organizations working on migration and development, human rights protection and social integration.

Development 50: 111-118; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100426

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Who's Who

Who's Who

Lists contacts of all the contributors

Development 50: 119-122; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100437

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Last Word

Sahara There and Back: A photo essay

Illustrates in pictures a (SID-CeSPI) documentary of men trying to migrate across the Sahara desert

Angela Zarro

Development 50: 123-126; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100438