Development challenges for a resurgent African diaspora

Rebecca Davies
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Rebecca Davies: Department of International Relations, University of Plymouth, England

Progress in Development Studies, 2010, vol. 10, issue 2, 131-144

Abstract: This article seeks to explore the politics of an increasingly prominent African diaspora. It does so by locating the growing debate on diasporas and development in a broader political economy context to provide a historical understanding of how the African diaspora, and its contribution to development outcomes, is shaped by Africa’s distinctive politics. In particular, the article considers the significance of neo-patrimonial systems of governance and the crisis of stateness in order to evaluate whether diaspora networks and income represent a significant opportunity to address long-standing problems on the continent.

Keywords: Context; development; diasporas; globalization; security; stateness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/146499340901000203

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