Abstract
This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora networks on core globalization outcomes such as trade, foreign investments, and the diffusion of knowledge and technology across borders. I then turn to the cultural and political sway of the diaspora, investigating the impact of emigration on the formation of political attitudes, fertility behavior, and other aspects of culture in the home country.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 20190005 |
| Journal | IZA Journal of Development and Migration |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 27 Aug 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© UNU-WIDER. 2019. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords
- Brain drain
- Cultural convergence
- Development
- Diasporas
- FDI
- Globalization
- International migration
- Knowledge diffusion
- Social remittances
- Trade
