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Adversary Analysis and the Quest for Global Development
Optimizing the Dynamic Conflict of Interest in Transnational Migration
in Social Analysis
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Binod Khadria
Binod Khadria
Jawaharlal Nehru University bkhadria@mail.jnu.ac.in
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In the traditional discourses on modern international migration, the 'sending' countries of the South are supposed to derive three kinds of static benefits—remittances, transfer of technology, and return migration. In today's postmodern transnationalization-through-migration context, the stakes are no longer static but dynamic, and the relative benefits to the 'receiving' countries of the North are much bigger than those that they 'concede'. Does the South have a say in assessing these benefits for the North? Only in an equitable adversary analysis—that is, in a strategic rather than standard cost-benefit assessment, in which each party steps into each other's shoes while on a level playing field—would the dynamic conflict of interest be addressed in ways that would produce a truly global quest for development.