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Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' transnationally.
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'This innovative book by Katie Wright provides a much needed new perspective on the interrelations between international migration, development and wellbeing. It manages to skillfully combine fascinating empirical insights from the lives of migrants with a new conceptual approach to international migration that focuses on human wellbeing. This book will appeal to a very wide audience of migration and development scholars and serves as a major contribution to contemporary understandings of the experiences of international migrants.' - Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
'This rich comparative and multi-sited investigation of international migration goes beyond the narrow focus of traditional economic perspectives, providing a holistic and perceptive approach that foregrounds migrants' understandings of and quest for wellbeing and happiness.' - Professor Manuel A. Vásquez, University of Florida, USA.
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KATIE WRIGHT is Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of East London, UK. Her research focuses on gender, human wellbeing, international migration, microfinance, sustainable livelihoods and Latin America.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Migration, Development and Human Wellbeing
Authors: Katie Wright
Series Title: Rethinking International Development series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284853
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24828-1Published: 26 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32051-6Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28485-3Published: 26 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2946-2231
Series E-ISSN: 2946-224X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 155
Topics: Migration, Medical Sociology, Development Studies, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Political Science, Political Sociology