International migration has become one of the most debated topics in many developed and developing countries. Host countries are concerned about the socioeconomic consequences of international migration, while sending countries-from a developing country’s perspective-are concerned about the...

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of...

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of...

Objectives – Using a single case study of the Global Soap Project, a social enterprise founded by Derreck Kayongo, an African Immigrant resident in the USA, this paper undertakes a discursive analysis of African immigrant entrepreneurship in diasporic contexts. This is in order to probe the...

Currently, international migration entails a complex web of exchanges an movements of people, money, goods and information. A number of scholars have proposed the notion of transnational communities to help in arriving at new ways of understanding the migratory process within the current context...