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Title:Migration in Tanzania: patterns, characteristics and impact
Author:Moshi, Humphrey P.B.ISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775)
Volume:26
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:89-107
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Tanzania
East Africa
Subjects:international migration
development
migration policy
Economics, Commerce
Emigrant remittances
Tanzania--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eastern_africa_social_science_research_review/v026/26.1.moshi.pdf
Abstract:In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the socioeconomic impact of migration. This paper underscores a number of aspects in relation to migration, namely that migrants play an important role in promoting development and poverty reduction in countries of origin; migrants' contribution to labour, skills and knowledge is enormous; remittances by migrants to their home countries provide major contributions to welfare and to improvement of human capital; and last but not least, brain drain is a problem, but the diaspora has a huge socioeconomic development potential for countries of origin. These four aspects indicate that migration can positively impact on regional and global labour markets, and more specifically, on the economies of countries of origin of the migrants. However, this positive contribution can only be realized if the process of migration is regulated and migration is integrated in the development agenda of the countries concerned. For this integration to take place efforts aimed at improving the policy framework become imperative. The experience of Tanzania shows that there are still some policy gaps which need to be filled in order to have a comprehensive rather than a 'bits and pieces' migration policy. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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