We advance a concept of political remittances that offers a distinct analytical perspective and
enables a comparative assessment across time and space. By providing a new …

Immobility is to be complicated as a topic of study in research on human migration. This
paper analyses different ways of staying put, investigating the motivations, degree of (in) …

The massive rise in intra-European Union (EU) mobility in recent decades has spawned
several important social and cultural phenomena that are still not covered by academic …

When migrants return to their country of origin, what is their developmental impact? This
apparently straightforward question begets many others. How is this impact to be measured …

The growing volume of international students has attracted research interest on their return
experiences and the potential impacts of their overseas education in their home countries …

This article deals with the issue of home-country receptivity towards social remittances from
the professional diaspora. Social remittances from the highly skilled depend on a favourable …

The growing pace of globalization, accompanied by major transformations in countries of
origin and significant economic changes in the industrialized countries, has resulted in ever …

This research sets out to analyse which factors hinder the attempts of migrants from Russia
to combat disinformation about living in Finland–which represents the 'West'–through social …

This paper provides a detailed analysis of financial remittances to families in rural Andean
Ecuador. Five different types of transfers are identified and analyzed: family maintenance …

This chapter considers the importance of the Great Recession on our thinking around the
effects of migration on development in Latin America. Historically migration has played an …