Harnessing the potential of Migration and Return to Promote Development: Applying Concepts to West Africa

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Theorising Return Migration: a Revisited Conceptual Approach to Return Migrants (2004, background): “…(Glaser and Habers 1974), highly skilled migrants (Lowell 2001; McLaughan and Salt 2002, Iredale and Guo 2001; Vertovec 2002; Cervantes and Guellec 2002), entrepreneur-returnees (Cassarino 2000), but also refugees and asylum seekers (Al-Ali et al. 2001; Ammassari and Black 2001; Ghosh 2000).”
RETURN MIGRATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN GHANA AND CÔTE D’IVOIRE: THE ROLE OF CAPITAL TRANSFERS (2009, result): “…research project on transnational migration, return and development, which also included a similar survey of ‘elite’ returnees to the two countries (see Ammassari & Black 2001), and a number of in depth qualitative and focus group interviews with returnees and current migrants in London and Paris.”
From nation‐building to entrepreneurship: the impact of élite return migrants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana (2004, background): “Empirical evidence gathered so far in different parts of the world is fairly contradictory (Ammassari and Black, 2001; King, 2000).”
Migration, Return and Socio-Economic Change in West Africa: The Role of Family (2004, background): “This section considers the acquisition of three different kinds of capital, human, social and financial, which were considered important in terms of the likely impact of migration and return on development (Ammassari and Black 2001).”