Book Review: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Migration Research: Interdisciplinary, Intergenerational and International Perspectives (original) (raw)

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2001

Abstract

must now confront more complicated issues such as sex tourism and trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and a host of other environmental problems. The final chapter (Graham) examines the multidimensional character of human security and its economic, political, social, cultural and environmental expressions. It argues that because of globalization, nation-states have now become weaker and in many ways superfluous, with their borders becoming porous to emigration and immigration. Nonetheless, the new (human) security approach examined in this volume as a whole also begs the question of who defines its parameters and how these are to be applied. Is it the United Nations or some other transnational body? If so, how can individual states be motivated to adhere to these unconventional (and at times, unrealistic) parameters? Nevertheless, the theoretical frame as well as the empirical illustrations raised by this volume provide a useful understanding of the new security discourse that has emerged since the end of the Cold War and in the context of the highly charged and dynamic transnational movement of peoples.

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