The invisibility bargain : governance networks and migrant human security / Jeffrey D. Pugh.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197538722 (ebook) :Subject(s): Refugees -- Colombia -- Social conditions | Refugees -- Ecuador -- Social conditions | Colombians -- Ecuador -- Social conditions | Refugees -- Social networks -- Case studies | Human security -- Ecuador | Social sciences -- Network analysis | Ecuador -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | Ecuador -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197538692DDC classification: 362.870986 LOC classification: HV640.5.C7 | P77 2021Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: In an era of mass migration and restrictive responses, this text seeks to understand how migrants negotiate their place in the receiving society and adapt innovative strategies to integrate, participate, and access protection. Their acceptance is often contingent on the expectation that they contribute economically to the host country while remaining politically and socially invisible. These unwritten expectations, which this book calls the 'invisibility bargain,' produce a precarious status in which migrants' visible differences or overt political demands on the state may be met with a hostile backlash from the host society.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In an era of mass migration and restrictive responses, this text seeks to understand how migrants negotiate their place in the receiving society and adapt innovative strategies to integrate, participate, and access protection. Their acceptance is often contingent on the expectation that they contribute economically to the host country while remaining politically and socially invisible. These unwritten expectations, which this book calls the 'invisibility bargain,' produce a precarious status in which migrants' visible differences or overt political demands on the state may be met with a hostile backlash from the host society.
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