Circular Migration and Human Development

Kathleen Newland ()
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Kathleen Newland: Migration Policy Institute

No HDRP-2009-42, Human Development Research Papers (2009 to present) from Human Development Report Office (HDRO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Abstract: This paper explores the human development implications of circular migration — both where it occurs naturally and where governments work to create it. The paper discusses various conceptions and definitions of circular migration, and concludes that circular migration is not intrinsically positive or negative in relation to human development; its impact depends upon the circumstances in which it occurs, the constraints that surround it and—above all—the degree of choice that individuals can exercise over their own mobility. The human-development lens distinguishes between de facto circular migration and circular migration that occurs within the parameters of government programs.

Keywords: Circular migration; dual citizenship; forced migrants; guest workers; labor markets; mobility; seasonal migration; temporary migration; visa regimes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 F2 F22 J0 O1 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2009-10, Revised 2009-10
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Published as background research for the 2009 Human Development Report.

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