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Creative State

Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico

By: Natasha Iskander

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Creative State

Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico

By: Natasha Iskander

At the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had policies in place. Morocco and Mexico featured prominently as sources of "best practices" in this area, with tailor-made financial instruments that brought migrants into the banking system, captured remittances for national development projects, fostered partnerships with emigrants for infrastructure design and provision, hosted transnational forums for development planning, and emboldened cross-border political lobbies. In Creative State, Natasha Iskander chronicles how these innovative policies emerged and evolved over forty years. She reveals that the Moroccan and Mexican policies emulated as models of excellence were not initially devised to link emigration to development, but rather were deployed to strengthen both governments' domestic hold on power. The process of policy design, however, was so iterative and improvisational that neither the governments nor their migrant constituencies ever predicted, much less intended, the ways the new initiatives would gradually but fundamentally redefine nationhood, development, and citizenship. Morocco's and Mexico's experiences with migration and development policy demonstrate that far from being a prosaic institution resistant to change, the state can be a remarkable site of creativity, an essential but often overlooked component of good governance.

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ILR Press

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080146224X

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Does Skill Make Us Human?

Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond

By: Natasha Iskander

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Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond

By: Natasha Iskander

Regulation : how the politics of skill become law -- Production : how skill makes cities -- Skill : how skill is embodied and what it means for the control of bodies -- Protest : how skillful practice becomes resistance -- Body : how definitions of skill cause injury -- Earth : how the politics of skill shape responses to climate change.

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Princeton University Press

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0691217572

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Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia

Vertiginous Exchange

By: Natasha Eaton

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Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia

Vertiginous Exchange

By: Natasha Eaton

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia. If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one that considers the relationship between art and labour, including pearlescence and pearl fishing in Sri Lanka, and the iconoclastic/fetish debates and forms of collecting amongst missionaries. Eaton explores these themes alongside the genealogies and modernities of white(ness) in contemporary curating and amateur female practice, and how the museobus or museum as a unique object has informed the work of contemporary artist group Raqs Media Collective. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Asian history, and imperial and colonial history.

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Routledge

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1000262553

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9781000262551

Does Skill Make Us Human?

Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond

By: Natasha Iskander

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Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond

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Princeton University Press

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Creative State

Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico

By: Natasha Iskander

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Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico

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Cornell University Press

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Does Skill Make Us Human?

Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond

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Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond

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An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and power Skill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill distinctions are used to limit freedom, narrow political rights, and even deny access to imagination and desire. Natasha Iskander takes readers into Qatar’s booming construction industry in the lead-up to the 2022 World Cup, and through her unprecedented look at the experiences of migrant workers, she reveals that skill functions as a marker of social difference powerful enough to structure all aspects of social and economic life. Through unique access to construction sites in Doha, in-depth research, and interviews, Iskander explores how migrants are recruited, trained, and used. Despite their acquisition of advanced technical skills, workers are commonly described as unskilled and disparaged as “unproductive,” “poor quality,” or simply “bodies.” She demonstrates that skill categories adjudicate personhood, creating hierarchies that shape working conditions, labor recruitment, migration policy, the design of urban spaces, and the reach of global industries. Iskander also discusses how skill distinctions define industry responses to global warming, with employers recruiting migrants from climate-damaged places at lower wages and exposing these workers to Qatar’s extreme heat. She considers how the dehumanizing politics of skill might be undone through tactical solidarity and creative practices. With implications for immigrant rights and migrant working conditions throughout the world, Does Skill Make Us Human? examines the factors that justify and amplify inequality.

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Book's by Natasha Iskander

Creative State

Creative State

Does Skill Make Us Human?

Does Skill Make Us Human?

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia

Does Skill Make Us Human?

Does Skill Make Us Human?

Creative State

Creative State

Does Skill Make Us Human?

Does Skill Make Us Human?

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