Oct 02 2009
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Human Development Research Paper 2009/01 Mobility and Human Development
Human mobility has always been an intrinsic part of human development. Human mobility plays a central role in global and local processes of social, economic and political change: it is both moulded by and helps to mould these global transformations. In order to understand how mobility is part of structural change, but can also affect the nature and direction of change or ‘development’, it is vital to explore the dialectics between structure and agency involved in human mobility.