Articles
Immigration and State Power
Introduction
For the past thirty years, the study of economic migration has been almost exclusively preoccupied with the social and economic impact of immigration on labour-receiving countries (as opposed to, for example, the impact of emigrat... » read further
Intra-Regional Migration In West Africa: Changing Patterns And Dynamics
Introduction Migration has gained significance on the global agenda with the increasing interdependence of the world economy. Popular views of an ’invasion’ of African migrants into the European Union and other parts of the developed world perme... » read further
International Female Migration and Trafficking Continuum in Asia
As a social phenomenon, the evolution of international trafficking in women and girls appears to be closely linked with two areas: i) changing demands for women’s labour in the global political economy and ii) the changing patterns of internation... » read further
Internal Migration in China
From the start of China’s economic reforms in the early 1980s, tens of millions of rural people began to seek employment in the urban areas. There they hope to find higher incomes, to acquire useful skills and to see something of life beyond thei... » read further
Remittances, Political Economy, and Economic Development
Remittances are the international financial flows that arise from cross-border movements of people. In recent years, remittances have begun to receive attention from a number of quarters, including academics, policymakers, bankers, non-government... » read further
Migrants: Suitable brokers of development?
In 2007, leaders of Africa and Europe met at the EU-Africa Summit, in Lisbon, to discuss cooperation on development and migration between the two continents. One of the main outcomes of these talks was the Joint Africa-EU Strategic Partnership fr... » read further
From the Guest Editor
Migration: is the 21st century different?
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Social Security System for a Harmonious Society
Introduction
As part of its plan to establish a harmonious society, the Chinese leadership has resolved to establish an integrated social security system by 2020 that would cover the whole population. This paper aims to provide an overview of t... » read further
Fertility transition in China over the last 30 years
Chinese society has undergone a very rapid transformation during the period of China’s reform and openness over the last 30 years. Traditional Chinese society was based primarily on family and kinship: reproduction, or child bearing, was therefor... » read further
‘New’ Chinese society, inequalities and fragmentation
Over the past thirty years, China has gone through three transitions: from central planning to a market economy and the country’s modernization; from an agricultural society to an industrial society; and from rural life towards very intense urban... » read further
The key to understanding and interpreting ethnic relations in contemporary China
Recent events in Tibet have brought renewed international attention to the issue of ethnic relations in China. In order to understand the situation in Tibet, Xinjiang and other minority areas in China, we need to look at the wider historical fram... » read further
ISS/XAU/KNAW Research Project in Rural Xinjiang
Since 2007, ISS has been cooperating with the Xinjiang Agricultural University (XAU) on research looking at the livelihood strategies of small-scale farmers of mostly Uyghur origin in the Southwest of the province, within the limitations of the w... » read further
NGO-State Relations in Contemporary China: The Rise of Dependent Autonomy
One important consequence of China’s 30-year reform is the emergence of NGOs which have enjoyed fast growth in recent decades. Before 1978, there were only about 6,000 so-called ‘social organisations’ in China. By the end of 2007, the number of r... » read further
Comparing participation in China to the participatory discourse in development studies
Participation has been an important buzzword in international development discourse in recent decades. Despite the conventional view that participation is not possible within an authoritarian political system, participation has also been an impor... » read further
China’s development model: What is there to learn?
Thirty years of sustained and rapid growth has brought China to the threshold of being a major player on the international stage. As new groupings (from G2 to G20 and beyond) take shape during the current financial crisis, China’s size and new fo... » read further
From the Guest Editor
This issue is focused on China. The focus is partly an opportunity to peer into the rising importance of China from a development studies perspective, but it also marks the rising importance of research on China within the Institute of Social Stu... » read further
The financial crisis and developing countries
Since the Asian crisis in 1997 I have been teaching about financial crises. My examples were developing countries like Mexico, Thailand, and Argentina. In my next course I will have to shift my focus as today arguably biggest financial crisis eve... » read further
Rembember Tobin? Finance driven crisis & Civic driven response
The global financial crisis of autumn 2008 may turn into a disaster for the poor if we do not understand the signs of the times and translate them politically. The crisis started out as a financial one, due to a combination of US government dereg... » read further
Social Security and Population Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Demographic changes that are currently underway in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to a decline in fertility and AIDS in high prevalence countries call for fresh thinking on social provisioning and social security issues. Here we provide a brief acc... » read further
A Unique Low-cost Private Health Insurance Program in Namibia: Protection from Health Shocks Including HIV/AIDS
Introduction
Africa today is bearing an extraordinarily large health burden as the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and the opportunistic infections associated with some of these diseases put increasing demands on the healthcare s... » read further
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