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Diasporas And Development: Perspectives On Definitions And Contributions, Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Diasporas And Development: Perspectives On Definitions And Contributions, Piyasiri Wickramasekara
PIYASIRI WICKRAMASEKARA
The paper addresses an important aspect of the current migration and development debate - the role of diasporas and transnational communities as contributors to the development of their origin countries. He shows that diaspora definitions, estimates of diaspora numbers and conceptualising their contributions are very much inter-related.
In the first section, the author reviews different definitions of diasporas and transnational communities. He then provides some statistical information and estimates available on diaspora communities in different regions of the world with some discussion of their profiles. The diversity of the diaspora is examined in terms of age and skill profiles, length …