Iskander, Natasha.

Creative State : Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (390 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Maps -- Timeline -- 1. Introduction: Interpretive Engagement in Morocco and Mexico -- 2. Discretionary State Seeing: Emigration Policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963 -- 3. Reaching Out: Beginning a Conversation with Moroccan Emigrants, 1963-1973 -- 4. Relational Awareness and Controlling Relationships: Moroccan State Engagement with Moroccan Emigrants, 1974-1990 -- 5. Practice and Power: Emigrants and Development in the Moroccan Souss -- 6. Process as Resource: Two Kings and the Politics of Rural Development -- 7. The Reluctant Conversationalist: The Mexican Government's Discontinuous Engagement with Mexican Americans, 1968-2000 -- 8. From Interpretation to Political Movement: State-Migrant Engagement in Zacatecas -- 9. The Relationship between "Seeing" and "Interpreting": The Mexican Government's Interpretive Engagement with Mexican Migrants -- 10. Conclusion: Creating the Creative State -- Appendix: Methodology -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Morocco's and Mexico's experiences with migration and development policy demonstrate that the state can be a remarkable site of creativity, an essential but often overlooked component of good government.

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Emigrant remittances -- Morocco.
Emigrant remittances -- Mexico.
Morocco -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
Morocco -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Morocco -- Economic policy.


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