Migration and Development: How Migration Affects Development

This explainer video looks at how migration can affect development. The video covers the mechanisms through which migration can effect development and then zooms in on remittances.

Additional videos referred to in this video:
Effects of Migration in Migrant Countries of Origin
Effects of Migration in Countries of Destination
What are Remittances? Understanding Remittance Basics
Where are remittances coming from and where do they go?
Why do people migrate? How do they decide where to go?
Diaspora: Origins, Evolution and Engagement

*Thank you to Kevin O'Dell for helpful assistance with this video

References
Bakewell, O. (2008). Keeping Them in Their Place: The ambivalent relationship between development and migration in Africa." Third World Quarterly 29(7): 1341- 1358.
de Haas, H. (2007). ‘Turning the tide? Why development will not stop migration’, Development and Change 38(5): 819-841.
de Haas, H., Castles, S., and Miller, M. J. (2020). The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. 6th revised edition. Red Globe Press, Chapters 2-3, 11-12, 14.
Massey, D. S. (1988). ‘Economic development and international migration in comparative perspective’, Population and Development Review 14(3): 383-413.
Piore, M. J. (1979). Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 1-49, particularly chapter 2).

[AlexNwoko]

This is very insightful. Thanks and i will be following you updates as I have strong interest in migration and international development

[natumerodaisuki]

Thank you for the video.
Would you consider co-development as an useful way to develop the origin countries through diaspora?

[StefanGabrielRoHu]

Migration is everywhere but not in Israel or Arab countries. Tolerance is demanded everywhere but not in Israel or Arab countries. There are no benefits from migration only propaganda.

[hjuoowou]

Hi my history send me this on Google classroom