Engaging the Diaspora

Engaging the Diaspora
Author: Pauline Ada Uwakweh
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0739179748

By its focus on the African immigrant family, Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families carves its own niche on the migration discourse. It brings together the experiences of African immigrant families as defined by various transnational forces. As an interdisciplinary text, Engaging makes a handy reference for scholars and researchers in institutions of higher learning, as well as for community service providers working on diversity issues. It promotes knowledge about Africans in the Diaspora and the African continent through current and relevant case studies. This book enhances learning on the contemporary factors that continue to shape African migrants.

Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development

Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development
Author: Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2012
Genre: Aliens
ISBN:

State governments recognize the value diaspora populations bring to development efforts worldwide. Since 2007, the Global Forum on Migration and Development has examined ways to highlight policies and programs that can magnify the resources, both human and financial, that emigrants and their descendants contribute to development. This handbook continues that effort on the basis of earlier investigations by the book's collaborating institutions, the academic and policy literature, consultations and in-depth interviews with government officials and nongovernmental actors, and input by 62 national governments. The handbook is divided into three major parts. Each part gives concrete examples of policies and programs that have been effective, and pulls out both useful lessons and common challenges associated with the topics at hand. The pivotal question now facing many policymakers is not so much if diasporas can benefit their countries of origin but how they do so and what kinds of government policies and programs can foster these relationships.

Engaging Diasporas as Development Partners for Home and Destination Countries

Engaging Diasporas as Development Partners for Home and Destination Countries
Author: Dina Ionescu
Publisher: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This publication explores different challenges posed to home and host country governments engaging with their diasporas for development purposes. Topics covered include: defining and gathering data on diasporas; incorporating diaspora contributions into development strategies; partnering with relevant diasporas; home country programmes and incentives conducive to diaspora contributions; identifying resources available within diasporas and how their impact on development can be maximised.

Diasporas, Development and Governance

Diasporas, Development and Governance
Author: Abel Chikanda
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2015-12-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319221655

Drawing on examples from the global North and South, this book examines the relationship between migration, development and diaspora engagement from a governance perspective. It explores the ways that governments interact with their own extra-national diasporic populations in order to boost economic development, build global trading and investment networks, and increase their political leverage overseas. Inside, readers will find fifteen essays which highlight such issues as diaspora engagement by governments at different scales, the divisions that often exist within diaspora groups, diaspora transnationalism and return migration, diaspora knowledge networks and higher education capacity building, and the neglected issues of South-South migration and diasporas as well as North-South migration and diasporas. The book presents empirical case studies from various geographical contexts including Australia, Canada, the Philippines, India, the Caribbean, Zimbabwe, and the United States. Overall, this book presents fresh insights into how and why migrant-sending countries are increasingly turning to the diaspora option to attempt to benefit from the transfer of knowledge, skills and financial and social capital. It provides policy makers, researchers, and students with new perspectives on governance and the means by which states are attempting to utilize their diaspora resources.

Diasporas

Diasporas
Author: Kathleen Newland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780974281971

Diasporas play an increasingly prominent role in discussions on foreign assistance and development policy. Governments of migrant-sending countries are working to attract both the talents and resources of emigrants and their descendants while governments of aid-sending countries hope to improve the outcomes of development assistance by engaging the talents and expertise of diasporas. Independently of governments, many diaspora groups or individuals recognize profitable opportunities in their homelands or contribute their time, talents, and resources to improving the quality of life there. This volume examines the development impact of diasporas in six critical areas: entrepreneurship, capital markets, "nostalgia" trade and "heritage" tourism, philanthropy, volunteerism, and advocacy. It is the result of research commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Poverty Reduction, Diaspora Networks Alliance. Contributors include Roberto Munster, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Carlyanna Taylor, and Aaron Terrazas.

Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education

Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education
Author: Kia Caldwell
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: African diaspora
ISBN: 9781433172236

Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education provides in-service and pre-service teachers with valuable information and resources related to African diaspora communities in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. This unique anthology fills an important gap in current pedagogical and curricular publications by combining the writings of leading scholars of the African diaspora with practical, hands-on tips and resources from middle and high school teachers and administrators. Drawing on cutting-edge academic scholarship, chapters of the book address topics such as the transatlantic slave trade, slavery in Latin America, the Haitian Revolution, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, Pan-Africanism, Black German Studies, and literature and art by Black women in the diaspora. In addition, Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education includes chapters on anti-racist education, use of the performing arts to teach African American history, and critical reflections by several middle and high school teachers on practices they have adopted to increase their students' exposure to the African diaspora in the classroom.

Human Geopolitics

Human Geopolitics
Author: Alan John Gamlen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198833490

This volume charts the rapid rise of various forms of diaspora institutions, across distinct historical phases and geographical regions, explaining the way that evolving models and best practices of international migration management have increasingly changed the way states see their diasporas and reconfigured the rules of international politics.

Diaspora for Development in Africa

Diaspora for Development in Africa
Author: Sonia Plaza
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821382586

The diaspora of developing countries can be a potent force for development, through remittances, but more importantly, through promotion of trade, investment, knowledge and technology transfers. The book aims to consolidate research and evidence on these issues with a view to formulating policies in both sending and receiving countries.

Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government

Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government
Author: Josh DeWind
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1479818763

"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."