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Title
Migration and Development: Lessons from Africa's Long-Run Experience |
Full text
https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/migration-and-development-lessons-from-africas-long-run-experienc |
Date
2022 |
Author(s)
de Haas, Michiel; Frankema, Ewout |
Abstract
In this epilogue we lay out four lessons concerning the relationship between migration and development drawn from African migration history. In spite of theories stressing the positive effect of welfare development on the aspirations and capabilities of prospective (labor) migrants, we argue that the historical mobility of Africans has never been hindered by poverty and underdevelopment in sending regions. The relationship between tangible rises in living standards and overall rates of migration during the long 20th century is tentative at best. Long-term development did generate large shifts in origins and destinations, reinvigorating the global African diaspora since the 1960s. We argue that shifts in migratory destinations have been affected by various macro-historical drivers introduced in this volume, forces that typically operate in the long run. One of these forces is the profound transition in public and political perceptions of the contribution of migrants to 'development' in receiving societies. Increasingly negative perceptions have curbed long-distance mobility of Africans within and out of the continent to a much greater degree than experienced by the millions of European and Asian overseas migrants during the Age of Mass Migration (1850'1940), a period in which African migration was overwhelmingly intra-continental yet more dynamic than is often recognized. |
Subject(s)
Life Science |
Language
en |
Publisher
Taylor and Francis |
Relation
https://edepot.wur.nl/582025 |
Type of publication
Part of book or chapter of book |
Format
text/html |
Source
Migration in Africa; ISBN: 9781032125299 |
Rights
Wageningen University & Research |
Identifier
10.4324/9781003225027-25 |
Repository
Wageningen - University of Wageningen
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