The Migration-Development Nexus: Evidence and Policy Options State-of-the-Art Overview
Author(s)
Nyberg-Sorensen, Ninna; Can Hear, Nicholas; Engberg-Pedersen, P.
Abstract
The present paper provides a state-of-the-art overview of current thinking and available evidence on the migration-development nexus, including the role of aid in migrant-producing areas. It offers evidence and conclusions around the following four critical issues: Aid and migration, Migrants as a development resource, Conflicts, refugees, and migration, and Poverty and migration. The paper is a synthesis of current knowledge of migration-development dynamics, including an assessment of the intended and unintended consequences of development and humanitarian policy interventions. We examine whether recent developments in the sphere of international migration provide evidence of a “crisis”, as well as the connections between migration, globalization, and the changing nature of conflicts. We summarize current thinking on the main issues at stake and examine available evidence on the relations between migration and development. Then the consequent challenges to the aid community, including the current debates about coherence and selectivity in aid and relief are discussed and, finally, we elaborate on the four conclusions of the overview.
