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1. Urban Social Movements in the Third World

   Edited by Frans Schuurman, Ton Van Naerssen

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   This reissue, initially published in 1989, considers the upsurge of locally-based movements attempting to improve living conditions in Third-World cities throughout the 1980s. The book presents qualitative, comparative research on the dynamics and constraints of these urban social movements, in a...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Asian Migrants and European Labour Markets

   Patterns and Processes of Immigrant Labour Market Insertion in Europe

   Edited by Ernst Spaan, Felicitas Hillmann, Ton van Naerssen

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   In an era of globalization and demographic transition international migration has become an important issue for European governments. The past decades have seen an increasing and diversifying flow of migrants from different parts of the world, including many from South, Southeast and East Asia. It...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Global Migration and Development

   Edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others,...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge