remittances and the mogration development nexus 小综述.pdf

E C O L O G I C A L E C O N O M I C S 5 9 ( 2 0 0 6 ) 2 3 1 – 2 3 6 ava i l a b l e a t w w w. s c i e n c e d i r e c t . c o m w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / e c o l e c o n Remittances and the migration–development nexus—Challenges for the sustainable governance of migration Conrad Heilmann⁎ Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: This paper argues that possible effects of international migration on the environment have Received 8 July 2005 to be analysed with respect to both the three dimensions of sustainability and the migration Received in revised form stakeholders. It has recently been put forward that immigration has to be reduced for 25 October 2005 environmental reasons. In contrast, this paper embarks from the view that reducing Accepted 30 November 2005 immigration is costly, ineffective and ethically troublesome. It argues that there are strong Available online 22 May 2006 interrelations between development and migration, suggesting that one has to consider development problems when discussing migration. In this context, the enormous amount Keywords: of remittances of migrant workers could yield considerable potential for promoting Immigration sustainable development. Sus