International migration, remittances and development: Myths and facts
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Migrant remittances contribute significantly to development and living conditions in sending countries. However, the 'remittance euphoria' is not justified, because unattractive investment environments and restrictive immigration policies, which interrupt circular migration patterns, prevent the full effect of the high development potential of migration.
Publication Name: Third World Quarterly
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0143-6597
Year: 2005
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Global games: Culture, political economy and sport in the globalised world of the 21st century
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The paradoxes and inequalities brought on by the sport-media-tourism complex that drives global sporting events are discussed. In the 21st centaury, sports are declared as an integral part of an increasingly global sport-media-tourism with respect to varied cultures and political economies.
Publication Name: Third World Quarterly
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0143-6597
Year: 2004
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Narrating a White Africa: Autobiography, race and history
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'Narrating a White Africa: Autobiography, race and history' examines the ways in which life-writing forms are being conscripted to make sense of the fraught and traumatic political and historical conditions of postcolonial Africa.
Publication Name: Third World Quarterly
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0143-6597
Year: 2005
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