Homeland impacts of developing country immigrants : an overview / by Susan Eckstein -- Migration and development : reconciling opposite views / by Alejandro Portes -- How overseas Chinese spurred the economic "miracle" in their homeland / by Min Ye -- Immigrants? : globalization of the Indian...

A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives. The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur spent his formative years in India and his early adulthood in the United States. In 2003, he returned to...