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The project will assess how migration contributes to:
- increasing trade (by increasing demand in both the home and the host countries)
- creating larger capital flows (mainly through remittances)
- increasing foreign direct investment (by returning home and by spreading information on investment opportunities in both the home and the host countries)
- encouraging further migration (through family reunification and migration chain effects).
The network partners will bring to bear a range of methodological perspectives and approaches,
drawing on the skills of social scientists (sociologists, economists, geographers, demographers
and lawyers) and institutions (universities, international institutions, research centres).
A crucial contribution of the research will be its reliance on individual and family information
to analyze phenomena such as remittances, family reunification, return migration, and repeated
contacts between migrants and their home country.
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