Migration as economic imperialism: how international labour mobility undermines economic development in poor countries

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Migrant workers are integral to destination societies -- From foreign aid to migration and remittances -- Interpretations of migration as a force for economic growth -- The limits of migration as agent of development -- Social remittances as cultural imperialism -- The migration as imperialist nexus -- Chapter outlines -- 1 Neoliberal Capitalism, Imperialism and Labour Migration -- The Third World, formal independence and economic imperialism -- Unequal exchange and global migration -- Systemic global inequality -- Redistribution of global income and wealth -- Foreign capital investment in the Global South -- Official development assistance -- Foreign direct investment Special Economic Zones -- Migration, remittances and development -- Covid-19 pandemic and economic development -- FDI and Covid-19 -- Conclusion -- 2 Underdevelopment and Labour Migration as Economic Imperialism -- Countering socialism through economic development, 1945-1980 -- Imperialism and the development myth -- Failure of free-market economic development models in the Global South and the rise of neoliberalism -- Remittances as a source of investment and national development -- United Nations Development Programme and economic remittances -- Labour mobility and development -- Focus on low-wage migrant workers -- Peripheral labour in strategic production centres -- The non-transmittal of remittances -- Migration as individual freedom and national catastrophe -- Benefits to destination countries -- Remittances as economic imperialism -- 3 Labour Migration and Origin Countries -- Why do origin states develop a labour-migration system? -- Labour demand and remittances -- Recruitment agency power over migrant workers.