The thesis concerns, from an economic and institutional point of view, the migration process
in connection with development issues, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region.
Adopting a south-south perspective of migration flows, which is focusing on migration from the
Maghreb and Mashreq towards the GCC, the research focuses on the linkage between migration and
local development (LED), considering the economic implication that temporary migration flows
(trough physical and human capital accumulation) have for the labour exporting countries of the
region. Since south-south migration flows are both temporary and skilled, the research points out
that return migrants from the GCC can have a significant impact for the growth of recipient
countries, as they transfer capital through remittances on regular basis and, once back, they can use
human capital acquired abroad to promote economic initiatives. Starting from the descriptive
analysis on international migration flows (from an historical to a systemic point of view), and
focusing on the patterns of people movements in the Gulf Migration System and on the role
remittances have in the region as a strategy for both household survival and local development, the
research considers the economics of migrant remittances from a micro and macro perspective and
the main direct and indirect effects that remittances have on the local communities. The review of
the economic literature on international remittances and on local development shows how migration
is an alternative strategy of financing local economic development (LED) especially for low-middle
income countries (among them the Maghreb countries). The linkage between return migration,
remittances, human capital formation and the promotion of local development in the Egyptian case
is the focus of the empirical investigation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unibo.it/oai:amsdottorato.cib.unibo.it:768 |
| Date | 26 June 2008 |
| Creators | Mengoni, Luisa <1978> |
| Contributors | Romagnoli, Alessandro |
| Publisher | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna |
| Source Sets | Università di Bologna |
| Language | Italian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Thesis, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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