Migration and development: Reconciling opposite views

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-22

  Portes, Alejandro ^a  

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Author keywords

Brain drain; Circular migration; National development; Remittances; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DRAIN; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR MIGRATION; REMITTANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 57149083487     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870802483668     Document Type: Review

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