The Transnationalized Social Question: Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Faist

Author:Thomas Faist
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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1.https://missingmigrants.iom.int.

2.Forced migration constitutes a significant share of migration worldwide. Globally, in 2014, there were about 240 million migrants; among those were about sixty million forced migrants. Among forced migrants, about seventeen million were classified as refugees according to the Geneva Convention. The majority of forced migrants come from five war zones: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria. Not included in these numbers are the approximately thirty-five million IDPs and those fleeing due to environmental degradation or due to development-induced displacement and, increasingly, climate change (http://gmdac.iom.int/global-migration- trends-factsheet).

The Dublin III Regulation (Regulation No. 604/2013) determines the EU member state responsible for handling an application for

3.asylumseekersseekingprotectionundertheGenevaConvention (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/656666/dublin-III-regulation- v1_0.pdf).

4.The mandate of the World Bank is to provide loans and credit to countries in the global South for projects that alleviate poverty and provide social and economic development.

5.The term ‘Washington Consensus’ was initially coined in 1989 by economist John Williamson to describe a set of ten specific economic policy prescriptions (fiscal policy discipline, redirection of public spending, trade liberalization, etc.) that he considered should constitute the ‘standard’ reform package promoted for crisis-wracked countries in the global South by institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the US Treasury Department. Subsequently, the term has come to be used in a different and broader sense, as a synonym for market fundamentalism. In this way, the term has been associated with neo-liberal policies in general and has entered the wider debate over the expanding role of the free market and constraints upon state social and economic policies.

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