The Brain Drain is Dead, Long Live New Zealand’s Diaspora
Background readings
- Etude diagnostique sur la mobilisation des diasporas
- Immigrant Knowledge Networks
- The Brain Drain is Dead, Long Live New Zealand’s Diaspora
Liens
Although ‘tapping the diaspora’ is now widely recognized as a viable aid strategy for transferring wealth from the "developed’ to the ‘developing’ world, there has recently been a surge of interest in ‘the diaspora option’ among the middle-income ‘developed’ countries of the former British Empire, all of whom have been grappling with high rates of emigration. This paper focuses on one such country - New Zealand. It shows how diaspora engagement has begun to offer a way out of an impasse in the local brain drain debate ; a debate in which the reigning theories of migration and human capital (such as ‘replacement migration’) have helped perpetuate one-sided, in-flow oriented migration management and population planning paradigms. This paper offers a simple threefold typology of diaspora engagement strategies : remittance capture, diaspora networking, and diaspora integration.
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