Overview
- Brings together the issues of diasporas, development, and governance
- Provides an international perspective that covers both the global North and South
- Features case studies drawn from diverse geographical regions that deal with most facets of diaspora engagement in a multidisciplinary manner
Part of the book series: Global Migration Issues (IOMS, volume 5)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Drawing on examples from the global North and South, this book examines the relationship between migration, development and diaspora engagement from a governance perspective. It explores the ways that governments interact with their own extra-national diasporic populations in order to boost economic development, build global trading and investment networks, and increase their political leverage overseas. Inside, readers will find fifteen essays which highlight such issues as diaspora engagement by governments at different scales, the divisions that often exist within diaspora groups, diaspora transnationalism and return migration, diaspora knowledge networks and higher education capacity building, and the neglected issues of South-South migration and diasporas as well as North-South migration and diasporas. The book presents empirical case studies from various geographical contexts including Australia, Canada, the Philippines, India, the Caribbean, Zimbabwe, and the United States. Overall, this book presents fresh insights into how and why migrant-sending countries are increasingly turning to the diaspora option to attempt to benefit from the transfer of knowledge, skills and financial and social capital. It provides policy makers, researchers, and students with new perspectives on governance and the means by which states are attempting to utilize their diaspora resources.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diasporas, Development and Governance
Editors: Abel Chikanda, Jonathan Crush, Margaret Walton-Roberts
Series Title: Global Migration Issues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22165-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22164-9Published: 18 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79381-8Published: 30 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22165-6Published: 12 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2213-2511
Series E-ISSN: 2213-252X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 275
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Population Economics, Human Geography