Diaspora Engagement

Kathleen Newland, director of the Migrants, Migration, and Development Program at the Migration Policy Institute and Yvon Resplandy, senior advisor for Diaspora and Remittances at the U.S. Agency for International Development discuss diaspora engagement and the joint MPI-USAID research project examining diasporas’ human and financial transfers in areas ranging from philanthropy to their access to capital markets in emerging countries. For the diaspora engagement studies, visit http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/migration_development.php.