Introduction: The Present and Potential of Diaspora Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Gijae Seo
Keyword(s):  
Diaspora Networks

scholarly journals DIASPORA NETWORKS, NON-ECONOMIC REMITTANCES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM SOME ECONOMIES IN LATIN AMERICA

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550005 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIR KSHETRI ◽  
DIANA ROJAS-TORRES ◽  
MARLENY CARDONA ACEVEDO
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Diaspora Networks

Diaspora networks' non-economic remittances in the forms of social, political, cultural and technical contributions to their homeland play important roles in entrepreneurship and economic development. In this paper, we examine the effects of such remittances on entrepreneurship development in economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We analyze how factors such as migrants' skills and education and characteristics of the host country are likely to affect non-economic remittances and their contribution to entrepreneurship and economic development. We offer some examples of initiatives taken in the home country and the host country to maximize the potential non-economic remittances and their impacts on entrepreneurship development in the home country. A key lesson and take-away that we can gain from entrepreneurially successful efforts of some economies is that the primary focus of diaspora policies need to be centered on utilizing various forms of non-economic remittances in stimulating the quantity and quality of entrepreneurial activity.

Work globally, develop locally: Diaspora networks as entry point to knowledge-based development

Innovation ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevgeny Kuznetsov ◽  
Charles F. Sabel
Keyword(s):  
Entry Point ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Diaspora Networks

In search of a model to describe the organization of the Algerian diaspora networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-314
Author(s):  
Aziz Nafa ◽  
Mohammed Saad
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Four Corners ◽  
Business Angel ◽  
Diaspora Networks ◽  
State Of Affairs

Abstract The problem of organizing the diaspora within and between networks has led to great interest among the scientific community. The literature has shown the existence of a real body and cohesion amongst the members of diasporas in the same country either at a regional or at a global scale, which organize, cooperate and act with the country of origin. This has led to some considerable material and immaterial advantages for the countries of origin. This state of affairs illustrates an inter-connection of the networks among the members, scattered over the four corners of the planet, but does not shed any light on the arrangement and functioning of the same networks within the country of origin. This research highlights the establishment of the Algerian business diaspora for the development of the entrepreneurship in Algeria. Beyond the business opportunity and the development of investment, there is also evidence of a clear involvement in extra-professional associative activities aimed at supporting entrepreneurship in Algeria and more particularly the innovative entrepreneurship. This qualitative research is based on the interviews of 36 entrepreneurs. The analysis of the interviews shows the existence of an innovative organization of networks and a hard core that is active in several forms of associations (Diaspora associations, Think-Tank, Business Angel, etc). This innovative organization of networks plays a significant role in the development of entrepreneurship in Algeria, in particular, the innovative entrepreneurship.

Diaspora Networks, Fragile States

2022 ◽  
pp. 255-271
Author(s):  
David Carment ◽  
Samuel MacIsaac ◽  
Milana Nikolko ◽  
Dani Belo
Keyword(s):  
Fragile States ◽  
Diaspora Networks

Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1949

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gold Rush ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Integrated Network ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Settler Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Diaspora Networks ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Charitable Activities

Charity is common to diaspora communities the world over, from Armenian diaspora networks to Zimbabwean ones, but the forms charitable activity takes vary across communities and sites of settlement. What was distinctive about Chinese diaspora charity? This volume explores the history of charity among overseas Chinese during the century from 1850 to 1949 with a particular focus on the Cantonese "Gold Rush" communities of the Pacific rim, a loosely integrated network of émigrés from Cantonese-speaking counties in Guangdong Province, centering on colonial Hong Kong where people lived, worked and moved among English-speaking settler societies of North America and Oceania. The Cantonese Pacific was distinguished from fabled Nanyang communities of Southeast Asia in a number of ways and the forms their charity assumed were equally distinctive. In addition to traditional functions, charity served as a medium of cross-cultural negotiation with dominant Anglo-settler societies of the Pacific. Community leaders worked through civic associations to pioneer new models of public charity to demand recognition of Chinese immigrants as equal citizens in their host societies. Their charitable innovations were shaped by their host societies in turn, exemplified by women's role in charitable activities from the early decades of the 20th century. By focusing on charitable practices in the Cantonese diaspora over a century of trans-Pacific migration, this collection sheds new light on the history of charity in the Chinese diaspora, including institutional innovations not apparent within China itself, and on the place of the Chinese diaspora in the wider history of charity and philanthropy.

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