Description: Recently, a new 'optimistic' discourse on migration has surfaced, highlighting migrants potential as agents of global development. While usefully underscoring migrants ability to create and spread knowledge and resources, this perspective risks portraying migrants as one homogenous group and ignoring individual or large-scale factors, like personal motivation or societal context, which can limit their contributions to overall development. This research project aims to allow a critical reading of the migration and development debate, by particularly achieving a more differentiated understanding of the dynamics of knowledge and skill flow in the migration process, which is a rather isolated theme in the migration discourse. We aim to explore the role of knowledge and skills for a migrants own personal advancement and its possible linkages with development efforts. The research assumes that with the emergence of knowledge based economies, knowledge has a great significance for wellbeing. However the access to knowledge and skills is diverse as are the opportunities to use it for productive outcomes. In this context migrants due to their experiences of different places and socio-economic environments can become brokers of knowledge, connecting these different communities. But migrants with their personal curricula and living and working in different socio-economic and political contexts are very heterogeneous and the way how skills and knowledge can be made use of do vary to a great extent. Drawing on various research activities that reflect the heterogeneity of migration - in South Asia, Central Asia and Switzerland - we use both qualitative and quantitative methods to look at the dynamics of the knowledge and skill production for migrants personal advancement and broader development efforts and the environment that favours or restricts this process both in the country of origin and new country of stay after migration. Core research activities are carried out by: Mr. Craig Hatcher (PhD cand.) The PhD research combines a legal geography framework with a philosophical approach to knowledge in migration research by developing an understanding of how internal migrants use their knowledge of law to negotiate the residence registration system in Kyrgyzstan in order to appropriate (urban) space. Ms. Jarkyn Samanchina (PhD cand.) The proposed PhD project looks at student migration between Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. Next to individual migration experiences of students the study pays particular attention to the legal and political framework between both countries, given the fact that Turkey and Kyrgyzstan have a mutal liberal migration policy and a long standing partnership on educational programmes. Dr. Anita Ghimire (postdoc) and Dr. Susan Thieme (senior res.) The research looks at student mobility in a comparative manner. usw.
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Origins: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Schweiz ? Kirgisistan ? Curriculum ? Sozioökonomie ? Geographie ? Gesetz ? Studie ? Forschungsprojekt ? Produktion ? Arbeit ? Forschung ? Ressource ? Risiko ? Urbaner Raum ? Umwelt ? Wirtschaft ? Globale Aspekte ? Politik ? Verkehrsmobilität ? POLITISCH ? BEITRAG ? OEKONOMISCH ? PARTNERSCHAFT ? PERSPEKTIVE ? Arbeitslohn ? POTENZIAL ? PROJEKT ? SUEDLICH ? VERARBEITEN ? ZUGANG ? BEREICH ? EIN ? EINGESCHRAENKT ? EINSATZ ? ENTWICKLUNG ? ERFASSUNG ? Erlass [Recht] ? Fluss [Bewegung] ? GEMEINSCHAFT ? GRUPPE ? INITIATIVE ? LAENDER ? LAND ? Lehrplan ? METHODE ? MOEGLICHKEIT ? Mittel ? Muskelarbeit ? NEU ?
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Time ranges: 2010-07-01 - 2014-06-30
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