Migration and cross-border business: an integrative view, synthesis and way forward

What is it about?

Migration elicits diverse and often emotional responses. We have high hopes that skilled migrants can create jobs, while we worry about unskilled migrants “stealing our jobs”. In this debate, skilled migrants are often presumed to be ‘legal’ and unskilled migrants ‘illegal’, but we are unclear about what exactly makes a migrant ‘skilled’ versus ‘unskilled’ – or even ‘legal’ or not. This paper provides an integrative assessment of out-migration and in-migration from especially an economic perspective.

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