Abstract
This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human capital. Functioning diasporas can lead to stable factors of development. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among those are measures to support the early integration of migrants into the educational systems and in the labor markets, including jobs for asylees. Dual citizenships and circular migration contracts are possible instruments. Migration policy can be an effective development policy.
| Translated title of the contribution | Migration for development: From challenges to opportunities |
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| Original language | French |
| Pages (from-to) | 13-30 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Revue d'Economie du Developpement |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
Keywords
- Brain drain
- Brain gain
- Circular migration
- Development
- Diaspora economics
- Dual citizenships
- Forced migration
- Jobs for development
- Refugees
- Remittances
- Social remittances