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Diasporic philanthropy in the migration-development nexus: exploring the case of a Ghanaian community
Diaspora-Philanthropie in der Verknüpfung von Migration und Entwicklung: Fallstudie in einer ghanaischen Gemeinschaft
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Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD)
Abstract "The subject of inquiry of this study is 'gender' within diasporic philanthropy in the discourse on migration and development. The contribution of this paper to the current literature on the migration-development-nexus (MDN) is the questioning of the major assumptions behind the migration-developmen... view more
"The subject of inquiry of this study is 'gender' within diasporic philanthropy in the discourse on migration and development. The contribution of this paper to the current literature on the migration-development-nexus (MDN) is the questioning of the major assumptions behind the migration-development discourse by challenging its notion of migrant networks as being homogeneous. As it will be shown, the latter perspective does not do justice to the hierarchies and diversities between and within networks. This is demonstrated by a gender analysis of philanthropic migrant organizations. By analyzing the discourse surrounding diasporic philanthropy, I will argue that the MDN leaves out important features - which corroborates the hypothesis of the instrumental appliance of diasporic philanthropy within the MDN, in the interests of the North. I will demonstrate the different social and spatial articulations of diasporic philanthropy by revealing particular ways in which women and men participate in transnational communities." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Ghana; community; migration; development; diaspora; gender; discourse; gender role; network; organizations; human dignity; developing country; West Africa
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Method
descriptive study
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
25 p.
Series
COMCAD Working Papers, 46
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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