Diasporas scientifiques
Diasporas scientifiques

Author: Rémi Barré

Publisher: IRD Editions

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9782709915212

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Depuis quelques décennies, les pays du Sud assistent à la fuite de leurs « cerveaux » vers les pays du Nord, un phénomène préjudiciable à la formation de leurs cadres et de leurs élites scientifiques nationales, inquiétant pour leur développement. Cependant, on observe depuis quelques années un processus qui pourrait compenser pour partie cette fuite de matière grise. En effet, par des apports informels, les communautés expatriées aident, conseillent et informent les institutions et les chercheurs de leurs pays d'origine. Quelle est l'ampleur du phénomène ? Quelles formes principales revêt-il ? Quelle est son efficacité ? Les responsables des pays d'origine et des pays d'accueil doivent-ils soutenir ce type d'initiatives informelles ? Si oui, par quels moyens et que peut-on en attendre ?

The Migration-Development Nexus
The Migration-Development Nexus

Author: Thomas Faist

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-04-28

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0230305695

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This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current re-discovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical perspective.

Global Diasporas and Development
Global Diasporas and Development

Author: Sadananda Sahoo

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 8132210476

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​This volume discusses how diasporas have evolved and engaged in economic, social and cultural domains of their host and home countries across the globe. The volume is divided into six parts: Issues, Challenges and Development Experiences; Diaspora Finance and Economic Development; Knowledge Transfer and Diasporas; The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion; Gender and Diasporas; and Representation in Film, Theatre and Literature. It is truly a global representation of diasporic engagement. Its contributions come from experts in various disciplines across the globe, and the chapters cover socioeconomic, policy-related and cultural elements in countries as far apart as New Zealand and Zimbabwe. The contributors discuss major issues related to local communities' engagement with the diaspora and diaspora--home relations in Africa, West Asia, South and South-east Asia, Australia and New Zealand, China, and the USA, providing a panoramic view of diasporic flows in the twenty-first century. The interdisciplinary thrust of the volume, together with its global focus, makes this volume useful to researchers, academics and experts from the social sciences, population sciences and development studies, as also to analysts and policymakers across the world.

South-South Migration
South-South Migration

Author: K. Hujo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-08-11

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0230283373

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This book seeks to explore the development and policy implications of South-South migration, specifically with regard to the role and challenges for social policy. It examines the linkages and impact of migration on gender and care regimes, human resource flows, remittances, poverty, and political organizations by or for migrants.

Diaspora Networks and the International Migration of Skills
Diaspora Networks and the International Migration of Skills

Author: Yevgeny Kuznetsov

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0821366483

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Network diasporas are but the latest bridge connecting developing economy insiders, with their risk-mitigating knowledge and connections, to outsiders in command of technical know-how and investment capital. This book examines the interaction of expatriate talent with institutions in expatriates' countries of origin in an attempt to make the potential of diasporas and their knowledge a reality. The question of how to trigger and sustain such a virtuous cycle is a central concern of this book. The focus is on the "how to" details of how to design effective diaspora networks and transform brain drain into brain gain.

The Dispersion
The Dispersion

Author: Stéphane Dufoix

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 900432691X

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Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood.

Diaspora Networks in International Business
Diaspora Networks in International Business

Author: Maria Elo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-12

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 3319910957

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This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship. It presents an overview of diaspora concepts from an economic perspective, and analyzes the global-economic and societal effects and mechanisms, revealing both positive and negative aspects of diaspora activities. Providing insights into the socio-cultural influences, it discusses diaspora entrepreneurship and international business, the respective organisational models, investments and business types. Lastly it offers an assessment of managing diaspora resources and policymaking. This book was created by an interdisciplinary team of editors, co-authors and reviewers including historians, sociologists, psychologists, linguists and ethnologists, as well as experts in public policy, international business, marketing and entrepreneurship. This unique team (many of the authors are themselves diasporans with an extensive understanding of their topic) provides the first global academic platform on the subject, combining the latest empirical evidence from developing, emerging, transitional and developed countries with various combinations of diaspora flows that to date have received little attention.