Call for Papers
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
San Francisco, April 17th-21st 2007
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRANT TRANSNATIONALISM
Session organizers: Philip Kelly, York University, Canada, and Margaret
Walton-Roberts, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
Sponsored by: Asian Geography Specialty Group; Economic Geography Specialty
Group.
Recent work on transnationalism has encouraged a reexamination of the
economic dimensions of migration, drawing attention to remittances, trade
networks, technology transfer, entrepreneurship, local development,
household economies, gender divisions of labour, and labour markets. All can
be understood as dimensions of the transnational economic ties created by
migrants. The work of geographers in this area has emphasized the various
transformations resulting from these global flows, but the full significance
of migration in economic processes is still relatively underdeveloped. This
session seeks to address the economic geographies of migrant
transnationalism in multiple sites and through multiple processes. Possible
topics might include:
• The implications of transnational remittance economies (including gender
divisions of labour and class mobility);
• The linkages between migration and investment flows and between migration
and international trade;
• Transnational migrants as agents of development in the Global South;
• The effects of transnational linkages on labour markets (in both source
and destination locations);
• The responses of international financial institutions to increasing flows
of remittances;
• Negotiating difference in transnational workplaces;
• Service industries in the migration process;
• Diaspora philanthropy;
• Transnational entrepreneurial activities;
• Migration and technology transfer.
Please send abstracts of 250 words or less by 30 September 2006 to both session
organizers: Philip Kelly ([log in to unmask]) and Margaret Walton-Roberts
([log in to unmask]).
For further information on the AAG conference see:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/SF2007/index.cfm
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