Creating an Enabling Environment for Diasporas’ Participation in Homeland Development (original) (raw)

Toward Effective Diaspora Engagement: Developing a Comprehensive Taxonomy for Diaspora Policies

2024

This study develops a comprehensive taxonomy for analyzing diaspora engagement policies by reviewing the existing literature. It highlights the importance of policy strategies, institutions, and financial mechanisms to channel diaspora resources toward national development. Findings suggest that countries must establish dedicated institutions, grant legal status, and provide financial mechanisms to engage the diaspora effectively. The proposed taxonomy offers a new framework for policymakers to analyze and improve diaspora policies.

Diaspora Mobilization Factors and Policy Options

2006

The potential gains from migration illustrated in the three cases should be clear. Diaspora members offer unique advantages in their efforts to contribute to the homeland. Recipients of knowledge transfer/exchange in both the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Philippines note the advantages of diaspora-specific contributions deriving from the absence of language and culture barriers, and more specifically, their ability to better understand, and thus, more effectively adapt foreign approaches and technology to the homeland context. In short, where knowledge exchange is concerned, diaspora members can act as important interlocutors between the technology and its originating context and the homeland recipients and culture. In the Philippine case, beneficiaries also noted the greater potential, vis-à-vis other foreign nationals, to persuade diaspora members to extend their stays and contributions. Beyond economic and career incentives, diaspora contributions may be framed, sometimes primarily, as philanthropy. The Filipino diaspora's philanthropic orientation yields direct assistance to particular regions, hometowns, and schools, as well as more general service contributions, such as medical missions and teacher training. Diaspora philanthropy yielded an estimated $218 million in formal remittance transfers in 2003. The Afghan case underscores the importance of diasporas' contributions to household sustenance through remittances, the potential of remittances for productive investment, and the potential for knowledge transfer/exchange and diaspora philanthropy.

Diaspora Engagement Strategies and Policies

Central European Public Administration Review, 2014

Diasporas have been making contributions to their motherland for a long time (Ionescu, 2006), without waiting for policies to rally them and, if truth be told, very often finding them to be the major obstacles for establishing the partnership. However, diaspora-motherland partnership is closely related to institutional frameworks, socio-economic settings, political milieu as well as issues of perceptions, images, trust and social identification, in both the home and host country, most of which are within the scope of public administration. Moreover, the evolution of policy awareness and a thorough understanding of the diaspora and development nexus are, in some countries, the result of the efforts of public administration. The development of diaspora strategies is essential because it demonstrates how state agencies, policy makers and individual citizens themselves have begun to think beyond national borders and make efforts to build non-territorial forms of organisation, such as Di...

Leveraging and tapping the Diaspora and remittances for development

2013

This paper explores the cross-cutting issues surrounding remittances and leveraging or mobilizing the Diaspora, as potential partners and catalysts of national development. It highlights trends in remittance flow and behavior of remitters and the arguments for channeling remittances for development, economic stability and to reduce poverty. It also addresses the drawbacks and pitfalls in relying on or even interfering with these private funds and personal freedoms to use earnings in the way migrants’ desire. The writers further explore the ethical, social, legal and economic arguments for regulating or interfering with remittance flow, volume and cause, for the purpose of development in two-sense: (i) personal development and strengthening family budget; and / or (ii) Investment and national economic development. This is followed by a discussion on the policies and operational measures, such as incentive schemes, mechanisms, legal, regulatory and institutional reforms, which can be ...

Models of interaction between the state of origin and the diaspora

Eastern European Journal for Regional Studies

The impact of the diaspora on the development of the state of origin is a topic that appeared relatively recently in the areas of interest and on the public agendas of the states. Currently, throughout the world, the diaspora represents an active force, involved in almost all areas of activity of a society, which tends to develop and maintain multilateral ties with political, social and cultural institutions in the country of origin or destination. Since the 1990s, more and more states have launched various initiatives at the governmental level in order to attract the development potential of the diaspora. However, often factors such as the availability of institutional means, available time, the needs, desires and capacities of diaspora members to engage in such activities, reduce the panoply of viable options regarding the state's implementation of diaspora-related development objectives. The given article aims to summarize the ways of interaction of the states of origin with ...