Description
Global Migration beyond Limits takes a critical approach to mainstream economic accounts of migration, environment, and inequality. Drawing on a range of case studies from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, Obeng-Odoom argues that much of the crisis of migration can be understood as a reflection of cumulative stratification at different scales in the global system, though the form of migration is conditioned by more than economic forces. Examining the experiences of migrant farmers, street workers, refugees, international students, and many more, this book shows that the so-called migration crisis is an expression of a political-economic system in which socially created value is privately appropriated as rents by a privileged few who use institutions such as land and property rights, race, ethnicity, class, and gender to keep others in their place.
About the Author
Franklin Obeng-Odoom is the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science Associate Professor with Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland, where he has been named a Permanent Member of the Teachers' Academy, the highest recognition bestowed on distinguished teachers at the university. Previously, he taught at various universities in Australia, including the University of Technology Sydney where he was Director of Higher Degree Research Programmes. Obeng-Odoom's research and teaching interests are centred on the political economy of development, urban and regional economics, natural resources, and the environment, fields in which he has written six sole-authored books, including Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge, 2020) and The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society (University of Toronto Press, 2021).
Reviews
Global Migration beyond Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy is an important contribution to the literature on global migration. What impresses is how Obeng-Odoom roams across continents to probe the many aspects of global immigration. His gaze moves from the global to the national to the city and to the suburb and neighbourhood. His institutionalist focus enables him to highlight the incapacity of neoclassical economic theory to understand the complexities and contradictions of global migration and permits his book to offer critical insights blinkered from the gaze and discourses of the conservative critics of immigration. * Jock Collins, Journal of Australian Political Economy *
Global Migration beyond Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy is an important contribution to the literature on global migration. What impresses is how Obeng-Odoom roams across continents to probe the many aspects of global immigration. His gaze moves from the global to the national to the city and to the suburb and neighbourhood. His institutionalist focus enables him to highlight the incapacity of neoclassical economic theory to understand the complexities and contradictions of global migration and permits his book to offer critical insights blinkered from the gaze and discourses of the conservative critics of immigration. * Jock Collins, Journal of Australian Political Economy *
The book is rich in data and painstakingly researched and materials diligently analysed ...nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. This book...contains such ideas to inspire both host countries and nations of origin. * Good Government: A Journal of Political, Social and Economic Comment *
By adding institutional and stratification economics to the analysis of migration, Obeng-Odoom is able to incorporate racial discourse in our understanding of global migration. Yet, the most appealing aspect of the book is its emphasis on the institution of land in addressing his three main research questions on the form, forces, and consequences of migration...the book is truly a must read. It is, possibly, the first book of its kind. It is impressive in its breadth, depth, and quality, with a writing style that combines allegories (as in the preface) with top-notch empirics in a voice that is as deeply poetic as it is eminently authoritative. It should be a required reading for students of migration studies, land politics, and African geographies. * African Geographical Review *
Global Migration beyond Limits is a worthy read and a great source of new information....One of them is its changing lens from a Global North perspective to the angle of the Global South...It offers in-depth insight through rich empirical work...Another value is the consistency of bringing land and housing into the arguments...The book will be of interest to scholars of migration studies, political economy, geography and housing and urban studies. It will also be of value to scholars seeking to move beyond a Global North/South binary in understandings of both migration and housing. * Housing Studies *
It is, possibly, the first book of its kind. It is impressive in its breadth, depth, and quality, with a writing style that combines allegories (as in the preface) with top--notch empirics in a voice that is as deeply poetic as it is eminently authoritative. It should be a required reading for students of migration studies, land politics, and African geographies. * Joseph Mensah, African Geographical Review *
The book will be of interest to scholars of migration studies, political economy, geography and housing and urban studies. It will also be of value to scholars seeking to move beyond a Global North/South binary in understandings of both migration and housing. * Vera Messing, Center for Social Sciences, Budapest, Housing Studies *
This work presents a holistic look at migration, whether within-country or global and across borders * M. Morgan-Davie, Utica College, CHOICE *
Could we consider global migration as migration beyond limits? Obeng-Odoom clearly contextualizes migration within the cycle of global inequalities and the various axes of social stratification, pointing to the institutional drivers of the social and ecological crisis...A particularly interesting part ofthe book is the policy recommendations the author makes at the end of the empirical chapters. In doing so, he remains faithful to the volume's main theoretical premises... * Urban Challenge *
Global migration beyond limits is a journey across space, time and societies...it provides an in-depth gaze into internal, cross-border and global migration. * Vera Messing, Housing Studies *
This book addresses the nature of migration, examines why migration occurs and notes its ramifications...on economies, societies, and environments. Its author(Franklin Obeng-Odoom) is widely travelled and experienced:...The author has his own hands-on experience of housing-related issues to add to his extensive consideration of the migration literature and the theorising behind it. Get a copy of this book. Every home should have one! * Ian R Dobson, Australian Universities' Review *
It is well written and a very good read for academics, advanced students of migration studies, sociology, political economy, global studies, and other specialists open to alternative perspectives on international migration and inequality. * Steve Tonah, International Migration Review *
The careful investigation, critique and evidence contained within this book provides a much-needed counter to ahistorical and atheoretical analyses of migration and offers a helpful addition to our understanding of these complicated and contentious processes. * Regina C. Serpa, Research in Globalization *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198867180
Author Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Format Hardback
Page Count 322
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 626g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 162mm * 23mm
About the Author
Franklin Obeng-Odoom is the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science Associate Professor with Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland, where he has been named a Permanent Member of the Teachers' Academy, the highest recognition bestowed on distinguished teachers at the university. Previously, he taught at various universities in Australia, including the University of Technology Sydney where he was Director of Higher Degree Research Programmes. Obeng-Odoom's research and teaching interests are centred on the political economy of development, urban and regional economics, natural resources, and the environment, fields in which he has written six sole-authored books, including Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge, 2020) and The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society (University of Toronto Press, 2021).
Reviews
Global Migration beyond Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy is an important contribution to the literature on global migration. What impresses is how Obeng-Odoom roams across continents to probe the many aspects of global immigration. His gaze moves from the global to the national to the city and to the suburb and neighbourhood. His institutionalist focus enables him to highlight the incapacity of neoclassical economic theory to understand the complexities and contradictions of global migration and permits his book to offer critical insights blinkered from the gaze and discourses of the conservative critics of immigration. * Jock Collins, Journal of Australian Political Economy *
Global Migration beyond Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy is an important contribution to the literature on global migration. What impresses is how Obeng-Odoom roams across continents to probe the many aspects of global immigration. His gaze moves from the global to the national to the city and to the suburb and neighbourhood. His institutionalist focus enables him to highlight the incapacity of neoclassical economic theory to understand the complexities and contradictions of global migration and permits his book to offer critical insights blinkered from the gaze and discourses of the conservative critics of immigration. * Jock Collins, Journal of Australian Political Economy *
The book is rich in data and painstakingly researched and materials diligently analysed ...nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. This book...contains such ideas to inspire both host countries and nations of origin. * Good Government: A Journal of Political, Social and Economic Comment *
By adding institutional and stratification economics to the analysis of migration, Obeng-Odoom is able to incorporate racial discourse in our understanding of global migration. Yet, the most appealing aspect of the book is its emphasis on the institution of land in addressing his three main research questions on the form, forces, and consequences of migration...the book is truly a must read. It is, possibly, the first book of its kind. It is impressive in its breadth, depth, and quality, with a writing style that combines allegories (as in the preface) with top-notch empirics in a voice that is as deeply poetic as it is eminently authoritative. It should be a required reading for students of migration studies, land politics, and African geographies. * African Geographical Review *
Global Migration beyond Limits is a worthy read and a great source of new information....One of them is its changing lens from a Global North perspective to the angle of the Global South...It offers in-depth insight through rich empirical work...Another value is the consistency of bringing land and housing into the arguments...The book will be of interest to scholars of migration studies, political economy, geography and housing and urban studies. It will also be of value to scholars seeking to move beyond a Global North/South binary in understandings of both migration and housing. * Housing Studies *
It is, possibly, the first book of its kind. It is impressive in its breadth, depth, and quality, with a writing style that combines allegories (as in the preface) with top--notch empirics in a voice that is as deeply poetic as it is eminently authoritative. It should be a required reading for students of migration studies, land politics, and African geographies. * Joseph Mensah, African Geographical Review *
The book will be of interest to scholars of migration studies, political economy, geography and housing and urban studies. It will also be of value to scholars seeking to move beyond a Global North/South binary in understandings of both migration and housing. * Vera Messing, Center for Social Sciences, Budapest, Housing Studies *
This work presents a holistic look at migration, whether within-country or global and across borders * M. Morgan-Davie, Utica College, CHOICE *
Could we consider global migration as migration beyond limits? Obeng-Odoom clearly contextualizes migration within the cycle of global inequalities and the various axes of social stratification, pointing to the institutional drivers of the social and ecological crisis...A particularly interesting part ofthe book is the policy recommendations the author makes at the end of the empirical chapters. In doing so, he remains faithful to the volume's main theoretical premises... * Urban Challenge *
Global migration beyond limits is a journey across space, time and societies...it provides an in-depth gaze into internal, cross-border and global migration. * Vera Messing, Housing Studies *
This book addresses the nature of migration, examines why migration occurs and notes its ramifications...on economies, societies, and environments. Its author(Franklin Obeng-Odoom) is widely travelled and experienced:...The author has his own hands-on experience of housing-related issues to add to his extensive consideration of the migration literature and the theorising behind it. Get a copy of this book. Every home should have one! * Ian R Dobson, Australian Universities' Review *
It is well written and a very good read for academics, advanced students of migration studies, sociology, political economy, global studies, and other specialists open to alternative perspectives on international migration and inequality. * Steve Tonah, International Migration Review *
The careful investigation, critique and evidence contained within this book provides a much-needed counter to ahistorical and atheoretical analyses of migration and offers a helpful addition to our understanding of these complicated and contentious processes. * Regina C. Serpa, Research in Globalization *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198867180
Author Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Format Hardback
Page Count 322
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 626g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 162mm * 23mm
