Creative state forty years of migration and development policy in Morocco and Mexico /
Natasha Iskander.
- Ithaca : ILR Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 367 pages) : illustrations, maps
First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2010.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : interpretive engagement in Morocco and Mexico -- Discretionary state seeing : emigration policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963 -- Reaching out : beginning a conversation with Moroccan emigrants, 1963-1973 -- Relational awareness and controlling relationships : Moroccan state engagement with Moroccan emigrants, 1974-1990 -- Practice and power : emigrants and development in the Moroccan Souss -- Process as resource : two kings and the politics of rural development -- The reluctant conversationalist : the Mexican government's discontinuous engagement with Mexican Americans, 1968-2000 -- From interpretation to political movement : state-migrant engagement in Zacatecas -- The relationship between "seeing" and "interpreting" : the Mexican government's interpretive engagement with Mexican migrants -- Conclusion : creating the creative state.