"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries,...

This authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art reference collection maps the changing landscape of labour mobility in terms of the dialectic between state sovereignty and market-based logic, which is transforming the speed, scope and scale of transboundary migration-for-employment.Faced with...

"This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development and explores the role immigrants living within diasporic and transnational communities play in the development of their host countries and their homeland ... Presenting cutting-edge research on several dimensions of diaspora and...