Over the past decades, the engagement of diasporas in issues conventionally seen as relating to development, such as poverty reduction, economic growth, trade or post‐crisis recovery has generated an increasing interest among a variety of stakeholders. This interest has been reiterated in international debates and discussions such as the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), the Uni...

This paper explores the relationships between international human migration and merchandise trade, using a complex-network approach. We firstly compare the topological structure of worldwide networks of human migration and bilateral trade over the period 1960-2000. Next, we ask whether the position of any pair of countries in the migration network affects their bilateral trade flows. We show th...

The paper explores some of the changing but increasingly important ways in which international migration contributes to knowledge creation and transfer. The paper focuses on four main issues. First, the different ways in which knowledge is conceptualised, and the significance of corporeal mobility in effecting knowledge creation and transfer in relation to each of these types. Secondly, the sig...

This paper addresses the challenges of analyzing contemporary international migration, in context South American countries, using databases composed migration estimates, from 1990 to 2019, organized by United Nations, and administrative records produced selected between 2000 2019. The analysis is developed with reference Bengali America, considered as expression one trends South-South character...

In Nepal, international labor migration to India and overseas as well as internal migration to the rural Nepalese lowlands are of a high socio-economic significance. Scholarly debates about migration in Nepal have gradually shifted from an economic to a more holistic perspective, also incorporating social dimensions. However, little evidence has been generated about internal migration to urban ...

The North American experience with international migration stands in unique contrast to much of the rest of the world. This paper uses microdata drawn from the national censuses of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and applies the same methodological framework to these data to examine the impact of international migration on the labor market. We find a numerically comparable and statistica...

lation Programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay. Email: apellegKfcsum.edu.uy. Her research interests include the history of population and international migration. She is the author of many publications on these topics. Between 1994 and 1998 she was a member of the South–North Migration Committee of the International Union for the Scie...

Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and decline in source countries. We exploit a recent data set on international bilateral migration flows and provide evidence which is consisten...