Rethinking migration and development as a hegemonic project - Kabbanji, Lama (Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration)
This chapter uncovers power dynamics that shape the politics of migration and development using Gramsci’s concepts of hegemony and integral state. It shows how a political agenda has been elaborated by several state and non-state actors for at least three decades, to disseminate a hegemonic neoliberal narrative on migration and development. This narrative, which is rooted in the migration ‘management’ tool kit, seems to have three main objectives: share the costs of migration control with migrant sending countries; regulate competition among industrialized countries for highly skilled workers; and impose economic restructuring and particular forms of governance in the countries of the ‘Global South’. To do so, various political and financial mechanisms have been implemented in order to constrain or obtain the consent of ‘Global South’ private and public actors. Similar mechanisms have been used more recently to design a new approach for managing displacement.
ISBN: 9781788117234 Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Section: Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration
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