Migrants shape market access: first, they reduce international trade frictions and second, they change the geographical … exports and imports to immigrant population and quantifies these effects in a model of inter- and intra-national trade and … migration calibrated to US states and foreign countries. Reducing US migrant population shares back to 1980s levels increases …

Sikh migration from Afghanistan through the twin analytical lenses of trade networks and the Cold War helps to illuminate a …This article documents the migration of Afghanistan’s Sikh communities to Asia and Europe during the Cold War and its … created as well as in relation to the long-term role of Afghan Sikhs in transregional trade. The article argues that exploring …