Introduction to the special section on establishing state‐led ‘diaspora strategies’ in <scp>A</scp>sia: Migration‐as‐development reinvented?

Hickey, Maureen; Ho, Elaine Lynn‐Ee; Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

doi:10.1111/sjtg.12101

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“…For example, rather than viewing the associations between migration and development as negative (as was the case in the debates around brain drain in the 1970s and 1980s, see Bhagwati and Wilson ), over the last fifteen years, global institutions prescribed reform of remittance and investment mechanisms as a way of improving the balance of payments for low‐income countries affected by emigration (Bastia, ). More recently, within the context of a wider global competition for talent (Kuznetsov ), skilled return is acknowledged as a diaspora strategy that should be the concern of all states seeking to maintain a competitive edge in the global knowledge economy (Hickey et al ; Tettey ).…”

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The political geographies of diaspora strategies: Rethinking the ‘sending state’

Dickinson

2017

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Diaspora strategies have been at the forefront of new studies of the political geographies of state‐led transnationalism, contributing important insights into the widespread socio‐economic impacts of initiatives used to engage émigrés in extra‐territorial nation‐building. The conceptualization of the ‘sending state’ as a central territorialized bureaucratic form has however contributed to binary framings of diasporic space by failing to capture the range of interplays in and between multiple scales and spaces that characterises the formulation of a states’ diaspora strategies, their evolution over time, and their variegated material outcomes. Alternative conceptualizations of the ‘sending state’ as a multi‐sited network of governing entities disrupts binary readings of diaspora space, but it is argued here that such an approach reproduces top‐down views of political agency. The review concludes by suggesting that scholars of diaspora strategies would benefit from exploring assemblage thinking, where a sustained engagement with spatial emergence and distributed socio‐material agencies has the potential to reveal the dynamic topological connections through which diasporic spatio‐political formations emerge, endure and may be unsettled. This has implications for understanding the variegated outcomes of diaspora strategies for individual diasporic subjectivities and ideas of common citizenship.

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The political geographies of diaspora strategies: Rethinking the ‘sending state’

Dickinson

2017

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“…Thus, while the term ‘diaspora’ is used as a catch‐all descriptor within MAD literature (see Hickey et al ., in this issue), the concept of ‘diaspora strategies‘ has come to imply a more specific set of policies and programmes. Diaspora strategies focus on those ‘diasporic’ subjects who are better off economically, more educated and under little or no compulsion to return.…”

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“…Southeast Asia is under‐represented in the current literature on diaspora strategies, despite the central role that transnational migration plays in the regional economy. As such, this article serves as a companion piece to the empirically grounded case studies in this special section (Hickey et al ., ) in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography and highlights the underacknowledged role that migration in and from the region plays in the establishment of contemporary migration policy norms worldwide…”

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“…Yet international development policy itself has been profoundly shaped by neoliberal agendas; as a result that mainstream migration policy literature in recent years decontextualizes the enormous diversity of migrant flows and the wide variety of state responses to migration in order to promote managerial visions of neutral, objective and transferable sets of policy tactics (De Haan, ; Raghuram, ). As such, neither this literature nor my analysis accurately reflects the considerable variety in how different sending states define and relate to their migrant ‘diasporas’ in practice (see discussion in Hickey et al ., in this issue)…”

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Diaspora strategies in the sending states of Southeast Asia: Rights, skills and questions of value

Hickey

2015

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Over the past decade there has been a surge of academic and policy interest in the contributions of transnational migrants in furthering national development objectives in their 'home' countries. These approaches tend to be bifurcated into two distinct categories: (1) 'diaspora strategies' that target the participation in national development objectives of sought-after elite, high-skilled migrants and (2) migration-as-development strategies, which focus on facilitating and channeling the economic and social remittances of nonelite, low-skilled migrants. Although these broad categorizations have never been entirely adequate in capturing the complexity of international migration flows, a conceptual division between them persists, with very real consequences for state policies in migrant-sending countries in Southeast Asia. This paper explores the separation between diaspora strategies and migration-as-development frameworks through a focus on rights and skills, and questions of relative labour value. I argue that while diaspora strategies and migration-as-development frameworks cannot simply be merged, the academic separation between them should be challenged and more in-depth theoretical engagement should be encouraged. I further suggest that migration policy makers should strive to evaluate their migration policies to address the increasing complexities of contemporary migration.

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“…This occurs as highly skilled and talented professionals from these less developed economies who are educated overseas fail to return, or upon returning, leave again (Hickey et al. ). Although these patterns normally hit private sector jobs hardest, with the growing trend of governments practicing ‘New Public Management’, public sector workers or civil servants are progressively seen as sources of talent in the so‐called global ‘War for Talent’ (Michaels et al.…”

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Managing the Re‐Entry Process of Returnee Government Scholars in an Emerging Transition Economy – An Embeddedness Perspective

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Aust J Public Adm

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This paper reports the findings of a study that investigates the factors affecting the re‐entry and readjustment process of returnee government scholars in Vietnam. These returnee scholars were originally sent overseas to study as part of changes introduced by the Vietnamese government to develop its domestic talent pool. Using the perspective of home country embeddedness, we find that career and community embeddedness factors, together with readjustment factors, have an effect on returnee scholars’ career and life satisfaction in their home country. These factors subsequently affected their intention to stay or re‐expatriate. The study contributes to public sector change management theory by examining factors affecting the re‐entry process of returnees within an emerging transition economy. It also adds to the limited studies on understanding and managing the re‐entry processes and state‐led diaspora strategies among returnee government scholars from emerging transition economies and their effectiveness.

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Introduction to the special section on establishing state‐led ‘diaspora strategies’ in Asia: Migration‐as‐development reinvented?

Cited by 13 publications

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The political geographies of diaspora strategies: Rethinking the ‘sending state’

The political geographies of diaspora strategies: Rethinking the ‘sending state’

Diaspora strategies in the sending states of Southeast Asia: Rights, skills and questions of value

Managing the Re‐Entry Process of Returnee Government Scholars in an Emerging Transition Economy – An Embeddedness Perspective

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