In recent years, there has been a surge of "Northern" policy documents concerned with increasing the positive effects of international migration in countries of origin. This article contrasts some basic assumptions in policies on migration, return and development with an anthropological study of Cape Verdean returnees, and it reveals some important disparities between the returnees' experiences and the ideas underpinning policy documents. The article analyses the role returnees' savings and skills play in local change in Cape Verde, and in particular it looks into entrepreneurial activities. This is related to a discussion of the conditions that must be fulfilled in order to make it possible for return migrants to contribute to positive soc...
For many years migratory movements were mainly seen from a quantitative and economic perspective. ...
D’un pays d'émigrants, le Cap-Vert a commencé dans les années 90, en particulier dans la seconde moi...
This article, in the first place, presents a brief overview of the Cape Verdean emigration, highligh...
In recent years, there has been a surge of "Northern" policy documents concerned with increasing the...
In recent years, there has been a surge of “Northern” policy documents concerned with increasing the...
In recent years, there has been a surge of “Northern” policy documents concerned with increasing the...
In recent years, the prominence of ‘migration’ as a policy domain in many African countries has shif...
Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to the...
Cape Verde has become increasingly a destination for international migrants from continental West Af...
Contains fulltext : 135844-OA.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)This article...
Are return migrants more productive than non-migrants? If so, is it a causal effect or simply self-...
Since the mid ‘80s, there has been growing consensus among scholars and policy-makers that internati...
Cape Verde has become increasingly a destination for international migrants from continental West Af...
A problemática da emigração nos Pequenos Estados Insulares em Desenvolvimento (PEID/SIDS) é abordada...
Migration has moved to the centre stage of development policy after decades of waiting in the wings....
For many years migratory movements were mainly seen from a quantitative and economic perspective. ...
D’un pays d'émigrants, le Cap-Vert a commencé dans les années 90, en particulier dans la seconde moi...
This article, in the first place, presents a brief overview of the Cape Verdean emigration, highligh...
In recent years, there has been a surge of "Northern" policy documents concerned with increasing the...
In recent years, there has been a surge of “Northern” policy documents concerned with increasing the...
In recent years, there has been a surge of “Northern” policy documents concerned with increasing the...
In recent years, the prominence of ‘migration’ as a policy domain in many African countries has shif...
Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to the...
Cape Verde has become increasingly a destination for international migrants from continental West Af...
Contains fulltext : 135844-OA.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)This article...
Are return migrants more productive than non-migrants? If so, is it a causal effect or simply self-...
Since the mid ‘80s, there has been growing consensus among scholars and policy-makers that internati...
Cape Verde has become increasingly a destination for international migrants from continental West Af...
A problemática da emigração nos Pequenos Estados Insulares em Desenvolvimento (PEID/SIDS) é abordada...
Migration has moved to the centre stage of development policy after decades of waiting in the wings....
For many years migratory movements were mainly seen from a quantitative and economic perspective. ...
D’un pays d'émigrants, le Cap-Vert a commencé dans les années 90, en particulier dans la seconde moi...
This article, in the first place, presents a brief overview of the Cape Verdean emigration, highligh...