Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances

Michael Clemens, Çaglar Özden and Hillel Rapoport ()

No 365, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to consider a range of international development processes. These include human capital investment, global diaspora networks, circular or temporary migration, and the transfer of technology and cultural norms. To introduce a special issue of World Development on migration and development, we present a selection of frontier migrant-and-development research that instantiates these trends.

Keywords: migration; development; poverty; mobility; brain drain; skill; education; remittances; labor; overseas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F6 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2014-05
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