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"Gloablization has significantly changed migration patterns over the past three decades and exposed the theoretical and empirical limits of traditional models of international migration and consequently, their conclusions for policy makers’ understanding of contemporary international migration processes. These models are settler models with a binary emphasis. They assume that international migration is a one-way permanent flow of people from the poor to the rich countries. [...]
These communities link different national societies in ways that differ from earlier periods in immigration history. As an alternative to the settler conception of immigrant communities that implies a location-bounded geographical area that is circumscribed by an immigrant-host state relationship, they have described these new types of immigrant communities as transnational migrant communities to emphasize their transnational (across political border) dimensions. These communities comprise low skill and high skill immigrants who share common interests and homeland references. Some transnational migrant communities comprise immigrants who voluntarily leave their homelands; others comprise individuals and groups resulting from forced migration. Contrary to the assumptions of settler models, these immigrants do not sever ties with their homelands. Instead, they construct networked organizational systems of relationships with homeland counterparts and actively use these networks to consolidate economic business, political, and social ties with families, firms, organizations, institutions and national governments in their homelands."
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Lead Managing Organization
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North-South Institute
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Contact First Name
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Rudi
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Contact Last Name
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Robinson
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Start Date
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2004-08
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Date Completed
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2005-01
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Language
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French
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Website (URL)
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http://www.nsi-ins ...
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