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Sadananda Sahoo B.K. Pattanaik Editors Global Diasporas and Development Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Policy Perspectives Global Diasporas and Development Sadananda Sahoo (cid:129) B.K. Pattanaik Editors Global Diasporas and Development Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Policy Perspectives Editors Sadananda Sahoo B.K. Pattanaik Indira Gandhi National Open University Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi, India New Delhi, India ISBN 978-81-322-1046-7 ISBN 978-81-322-1047-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-1047-4 Springer New Delhi Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013955589 © Springer India 2014 This work is subject to copyright. 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Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Acknowledgements Bringing out this book is not just the effort of editors but a collective effort that spans more than 2 years involving different stages of conceptualization, receiving comments, editing, proof reading, and fi nally publishing. The book is the outcome of the international conference “Diaspora and Development: Prospects and Implications for Nation State”, which we organized during September 2011. When we organized the international conference we never thought that we would receive such overwhelming participation from such large numbers of scholars from differ- ent countries. The conference was a success; thanks to the support of many indi- viduals and organizations, especially Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, for providing all the help in organizing this international conference very smoothly. We acknowledge and thank our esteemed sponsors, such as the Indian Council of Overseas Employment (ICOE), the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and Oxford University Press whose fi nancial support resulted in wider participation from scholars from as many as 27 countries, and covering wide range of issues. This certainly helped in providing a very rich understanding of diasporic engagement in various socio-economic, political, and cultural processes. Names of our colleagues in the School of Extension and Development Studies and the School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies who have extended unconditional support and encouragement need special mention, especially Dr. Nehal Farooqui, Dr. P.V.K. Sashidhar, Dr. Pradeep Kumar, Dr. Nisha Vergese, and Dr. Grace Don Nemching. We would like to thank our anonymous reviewers for accepting our manuscripts and also providing many useful comments that helped the authors improve their chapters. Scholars as well as our friends such as Dr. Gijsbert Oonk, Madhukar Shetty, Kamala Kant Dash, Dr. Debasish Patnaik, and Dr. Sambit Malick gave valuable editorial support that immensely helped in different stages of preparing proposals to the introduction. We thank Dr. Margaret Walton-Roberts, who is also a contributor in this book, for suggesting the publisher’s name and for encouragement at every stage. We feel v vi Acknowledgements especially indebted to all our contributors who deserve special thanks for their cooperation throughout the process of publication, responding to our queries, and also for their alertness on the progress of the publication, which kept us always on our toes. Without their full cooperation the book would not have come out. Shinjini Chatterjee, Senior Editor of the Springer, and her team, has been very systematically supporting us, and painstakingly working on the book project. We thank her for bearing with all the diffi culties at every stages of the publication of this book. Last and not least: We thank Praveer Shukla for providing editorial support at very short notice. Nihar Smita, Khushboo, Sheetal and our beloved students Rakesh, Monika, Rubina, Kiran, Shradhanvita, Amardeep, Rajesh Mathew, Aswin, Tasha, Pankaj, Anuja, Anuska, and Ayushi who have been always around and extended their cooperation. We beg forgiveness of all those who have been with us but whose names we have failed to mention. New Delhi, India Sadananda Sahoo B.K. Pattanaik Editors’ Biography Sahoo Sadananda is a sociologist, at present an Assistant Professor at the School of Inter-disciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Studies (SOITS), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. His Ph.D. thesis, at Central University of Hyderabad, on the role and contribution of diaspora in home country development especially in the healthcare sector provided him signifi cant insights to the dynamics of diasporic engagement. Before joining IGNOU, he worked with the Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR), a Planning Commission think tank, Government of India. At IAMR, he completed several national and international projects on education, agriculture and employment. Dr. Sahoo has more than 20 publications and reviews on diaspora and ethnic studies, international migration, public policy and rural development, etc. Besides, he has also co-edited a book on diaspora, development and education. He is the Founder Convener of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), an International think tank based in New Delhi, India. He is teaching and supervising students on the issues of media, culture, development, public policy and global diaspora. E-mail: [email protected] B. K. Pattanaik is a leading developmental economist, at present the Professor at the School of Extension and Development Studies (SOEDS), IGNOU, New Delhi. In the last 20 years, he has completed a number of research studies, policy evalua- tions and consulting projects for global agencies like the UNDP, the UNICEF, Ford Foundation, USAID and the European Commission. In addition, he continues to work as a policy expert for several departments in the Government of India on the issues of education, health and socio-economic development He has contributed to policy making regularly as a member of working and drafting committees under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Planning Commission, Government of India. vii viii Editors’ Biography Prof. Pattanaik has published seven books and more than 100 articles and reviews on public policy, agriculture, education, health and family welfare, rural development, migration, gender empowerment and international development. He has received international appreciation and awards for his contribution to the study of developmental economics. E-mail: [email protected] Contents 1 Introduction: Diasporas in the New Global Age .................................. 1 Sadananda Sahoo and B.K. Pattanaik 2 Diaspora-Centred Development: Current Practice, Critical Commentaries, and Research Priorities ................................. 17 Mark Boyle and Rob Kitchin 3 The Link with a Home Country : A Comparative Analysis of Host Country Environments for Diaspora Engagement ................. 39 Gabriela Tejada , Metka Hercog , Christiane Kuptsch, and Jean-Claude Bolay 4 Diasporas and Divergent Development in Kerala and Punjab : Querying the Migration-Development Discourse ................................ 69 Margaret Walton-Roberts 5 Africa’s Money in Africa: Human and Physical Capital Dimensions ................................................................................. 87 Stephen Evans Osabuohien and Rapuluchukwu Uchenna Efobi 6 Diaspora Bonds and Caribbean Economic Development : Tapping into an Innovative Financing Mechanism .............................. 105 Jwala Rambarran and Prakash Ramlakhan 7 The African Brain Drain: Causes, Costs, and Consequences .................. 121 Brij Maharaj 8 Diaspora, Brain Circulation and Indian Development : Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand ..................................... 139 Wardlow Friesen 9 Rethinking Development Through Dynamics of Skilled Human Migration from India ............................................... 157 Leena Singh ix
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