Transatlantic Dialogues on Migration and Development Issues
Stimulating a transatlantic, South-North, and South-South debate on migration and development among policy makers, academics and civil society.
The Transatlantic Dialogues project revolved around three main questions:
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How has migration affected development in migrant-sending areas?
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How can we explain differences in migration impacts across regions and countries?
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What can be learned from these experiences to formulate better policies and an agenda for future comparative research?
These questions were addressed through formal research and integrated with two study tours in migrant-sending areas in Zacatecas, Mexico (March 2009), and Ouarzazate, Morocco (March 2010). The field visits and interviews with migrants enabled participants to observe migrants' investments as well as the wider socioeconomic, demographic, and political impacts of migration.
The confrontation with these realities in the field exposed participants to the diversity of such impacts. This sparked discussions on the conditions that explain such diversity, and on how policies can contribute to increasing the positive development impacts of migration.
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Funding
The funding for the study tour in Mexico was generously provided by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
The study tour in Morocco was funded by the Deutsche Gesellshaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and the Fondation Hassan II pour les Marocains Résidents à l'étranger.
Partner institutes
The study tours were organized in partnership with research teams from the Center for Region and Regionalisation (E3R) of the Mohamed V University of Rabat-Agdal, Morocco, and the Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico.
Study tours
Mexico - 16-20 March 2009, Zacatecas
Morocco - 21-26 March 2010, Ouarzazate