"Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver lasting change. Diasporans-immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin-may offer an In-Between Advantage for institutional reform, which links...

Introduction / by Steve Tonah and Mary Boatemaa Setrana -- Political participation beyond national borders : the case of Ghanaian political party branches in the Netherlands / by Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei and Mary Boatemaa Setrana -- Transnational migration among migrants from Cameroon / by...

'This book addresses a largely unresolved mirror question. Does migration cause development or the other way around? As the contributors show, the compromise idea that they are mutually constitutive depends on a careful examination of the forms of migration (temporary, circular, permanent or...