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Understanding Global Migration
Understanding Global Migration offers scholars a groundbreaking account of emerging migration states around the globe, especially in the Global South.
Leading scholars of migration have collaborated to provide a birds-eye view of migration interdependence. Understanding Global Migration proposes a new typology of migration states, identifying multiple ideal types beyond the classical liberal type. Much of the world's migration has been to countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America. The authors assembled here account for diverse histories of colonialism, development, and identity in shaping migration policy.
This book provides a truly global look at the dilemmas of migration governance: Will migration be destabilizing, or will it lead to greater openness and human development? The answer depends on the capacity of states to manage migration, especially their willingness to respect the rights of the ever-growing portion of the world's population that is on the move.
Leading scholars of migration have collaborated to provide a birds-eye view of migration interdependence. Understanding Global Migration proposes a new typology of migration states, identifying multiple ideal types beyond the classical liberal type. Much of the world's migration has been to countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America. The authors assembled here account for diverse histories of colonialism, development, and identity in shaping migration policy.
This book provides a truly global look at the dilemmas of migration governance: Will migration be destabilizing, or will it lead to greater openness and human development? The answer depends on the capacity of states to manage migration, especially their willingness to respect the rights of the ever-growing portion of the world's population that is on the move.
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520 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2022
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November 27, 2022
Overall the insight behind the cause of global migration presented by researchers are good. However, Indian migration written by a researcher Kamal Sadiq is very poor. It has more assumptions than facts. Specially, what he has written about Sri Lankan migrants in India is almost a false information.
Facts:
1. The LTTEs are not Indian workers brought by British. The LTTE is a militant group from native Sri Lankan Tamils.
2. Native Sri Lankan Tamils live in Northern Sri Lanka and Indian estate workers live in upcountry (middle of Sri Lanka). LTTE is formed in Northern part. Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka have never taken part in the war. Most of them are poorly educated and not informed of the news on the civil war. (note that the area Indian Tamils mostly live is Southern Sri Lanka and media is Sinhalese in this area. The country was (is) hugely divided by the media and politicians. In this sense, Sinhala media news and Tamil media news were (are) not identical.)
3. Total Sri Lankan Tamils in 1990s were around 15% of the population (today it's 11.2% - number is reduced not only because of the migration in 1990s and early 2000s, but also lower birth rate, other minority communities' high birthrate - Indian Tamils and Moors). In 1990s, Sri Lankan Tamils population was 2.5 million and now it's nearly 2.48 million.
4. From 1990s - late 2000s, there were around 300000 Sri Lankan Tamils left to India and more migrated to Europe, Canada and Australia (which was not accounted in this research). Further, total LTTE members were less than 20000. However, the researcher could not find resources (it's an easy record) and he could not tell that 300000 migrants who went to India are LTTE or not.
5. LTTE members who left the country are very tiny percentage and the rest are civilians. Half of the migrants went to India during civil war have returned to Sri Lanka after the end of the war.
There are many resources available in UN and the other NGOs about the Sri Lankan civil war but the research is very poorly done in this book.
Facts:
1. The LTTEs are not Indian workers brought by British. The LTTE is a militant group from native Sri Lankan Tamils.
2. Native Sri Lankan Tamils live in Northern Sri Lanka and Indian estate workers live in upcountry (middle of Sri Lanka). LTTE is formed in Northern part. Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka have never taken part in the war. Most of them are poorly educated and not informed of the news on the civil war. (note that the area Indian Tamils mostly live is Southern Sri Lanka and media is Sinhalese in this area. The country was (is) hugely divided by the media and politicians. In this sense, Sinhala media news and Tamil media news were (are) not identical.)
3. Total Sri Lankan Tamils in 1990s were around 15% of the population (today it's 11.2% - number is reduced not only because of the migration in 1990s and early 2000s, but also lower birth rate, other minority communities' high birthrate - Indian Tamils and Moors). In 1990s, Sri Lankan Tamils population was 2.5 million and now it's nearly 2.48 million.
4. From 1990s - late 2000s, there were around 300000 Sri Lankan Tamils left to India and more migrated to Europe, Canada and Australia (which was not accounted in this research). Further, total LTTE members were less than 20000. However, the researcher could not find resources (it's an easy record) and he could not tell that 300000 migrants who went to India are LTTE or not.
5. LTTE members who left the country are very tiny percentage and the rest are civilians. Half of the migrants went to India during civil war have returned to Sri Lanka after the end of the war.
There are many resources available in UN and the other NGOs about the Sri Lankan civil war but the research is very poorly done in this book.
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