Global Diasporas and Development

Chapter 1: Diaspora centred development: Current practice, critical commentaries and research priorities.- Chapter 2: The Link with a Home Country: A Comparative Analysis of Host-country Environments for Diaspora Engagement.- Chapter 3: Diasporas and Divergent Development in Kerala and Punjab: Querying the Migration-Development Discourse.- Chapter 4: Africa's Money in Africa: Human and Physical Capital Dimensions.- Chapter 5: Diaspora Bonds and the Caribbean Economic Development.- Chapter 6: The African Brain Drain - Causes, Costs, Consequences.- Chapter 7: Diaspora, Brain circulation and Indian development: Perspective from Australia and New Zealand.- Chapter 8: Indian Diapora and Knowledge Transfer: Sectoral Perspectives and Challenges.- Chapter 9: Rethinking Development through Dynamics of Skilled Human Migration from India.- Chapter 10: Knowledge Diasporas: Narratives of Transnational Migration and Higher Education.- Chapter 11: Reverse Brain Drain: New Strategies by Developed and Developing Countries.- Chapter 12: The diaspora as carrier of soft knowledge for development to the home country: evidence from highly skilled Filipino migrants in New Zealand and Australia.- Chapter 13: Tapping Talents in India through Diasporas Network: Opportunities and Challenges.- Chapter 14: Muslim Diaspora and European Identity: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion.- Chapter 15: Diaspora, Cultural Disintegration and Underdevelopment: The Case of Zimbabwe in the Last Ten Years (2001 - 2011).- Chapter 16: Integration and 'Limited Acculturation' of Tibetans at Shimla: Experience and Perceptions of a Diaspora.- Chapter 17: The Dark Side of 'Diaspora' in Africa's Great Lakes Region.- Chapter 18: Laws Protecting the Rights and Interests of Returned Overseas Chinese and Their Relatives: Their Relevance and Adaptation.- Chapter 19: Migrant Rights and

Sadananda Sahoo is a sociologist, at present an Assistant Professor at the School of Inter-disciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Studies (SOITS), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. His PhD at the Central University of Hyderabad was on the role and contribution of diasporas to home country development, especially in the healthcare sector. It provided him with significant insights into the dynamics of diasporic engagement. Before joining IGNOU he worked with the Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR), a Planning Commission think-tank for the Government of India. At IAMR, he completed several international projects on education, agriculture and employment. Dr. Sahoo has more than 20 publications and reviews on diaspora and ethnic studies, international migration, public policy, and rural development, among others. Besides, he has also co-edited a book on diasporas, development and education. He is the Founder Convener of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), based in New Delhi, India. He teaches and supervises students on issues of media, culture, development, public policy and the global diaspora. Email: ssahoo@ignou.ac.in B.K. Pattanaik is a developmental economist and at present Director of the School of Extension and Development Studies (SOEDS), IGNOU, New Delhi. In the past twenty years, he has completed a number research studies, policy evaluations and consulting projects for global agencies like the UNDP, the UNICEF, Ford Foundation, USAID and the European Commission. In addition, he continues to work as a policy expert for several departments at the Government of India on issues of education, health and socio-economic development. He regularly contributes to policymaking as a member of working and drafting committees under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Planning Commission, Government of India. Professor Pattanaik has published seven books and more than

A very useful addition in the field of diaspora studies, which is an extremely important emerging discipline.



- J. C. Sharma, Former Member Secretary, High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora



... This thought-provoking book addresses the correlation between development and global diasporas from an interdisciplinary perspective. It has the merit of looking in-depth into systematic and prospective contributions by diasporas to the development in their home countries, including profound impact on poverty reduction.... [T]he book is a leap forward in the comprehension of socio-economic, cultural and policy dimensions of global diasporas....

Dr. Armen Baibourtian, Senior Adviser, United Nations, Armenia

... This book is an excellent attempt - a creative brainstorm of fresh ideas and visions - to provide well-embedded case studies and theoretical new insights.... In this well-edited and ambitious volume, the authors focus on diasporas being the human face of the globalization process. The book is a must read for students, scholars and policy makers in the field of diasporas and development.



- Prof. Gijsbert Oonk, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Rotterdam, Netherlands; author of Settled Strangers. Asian Business Elites in East Africa, 1800-2000





... This book links the economic, social and cultural aspects of diasporas in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and the Caribbean. In bringing these themes together for the varied diasporas, it gives a comparative picture across perspectives, regions and histories. It also usefully connects this discussion to policy directions regarding the use of knowledge networks, transfer of skills and the flow of remittances.


- Prof. Supriya Singh, Sociology of Communications, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia





This book is an invaluable contribution to the growing