Migration from North Africa and the Middle East: Skilled Migrants, Development and Globalisation

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The countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) and those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are crucial to the development of the world economy. Highly skilled migration to and from these regions is key to the recent socio-political transformations that have occurred across the world. Despite this, in the states concerned, skilled migration remains an underlying 'issue of concern', rather than at the top of political agendas, leading to a spectrum of unclear and uncoordinated legal and policy frameworks. Containing a series of thematic and country-specific overviews, this book highlights the specificity of each region, and identifies and analyses key demographic, economic, legal and political data - allowing for policy prescription. Skilled Migration, the 'brain drain', and its impact is an extensively debated phenomenon and this will be an essential companion for social scientists, policy-makers and development scholars.

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Philippe Fargues is Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute Alessandra Venturini is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Turin and Executive Director of CARIM (European-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration at the EUI).