Migration for Inclusive African Growth Network

移徙与发展之间的联系已在理论和政策界得到确认。然而，重点一直放在从全球南方向全球北方的移徙问题上，低估了南北流动和全球南方内部移徙的重要性。这些替代性流动对包容性增长具有重要影响，包容性增长被理解为为社会所有人创造机会的经济增长，并且货币和非货币利益得到公平分配。“移民促进非洲包容性增长”网络将研究如何通过尼日利亚、加纳、肯尼亚和莫桑比克四个非洲国家服务部门移民群体的外来投资来加强包容性增长。有3个因素表明这是一个重要的关注点。首先，经济衰退暴露了许多非洲经济体在过去十年中所经历的增长的脆弱性。这种增长在很大程度上是基于大宗商品出口，而最近的学术和政策分析表明，服务业可能是未来增长的关键。第二，除了非洲内部不断增长的移民外，我们还看到，来自全球北方高度发达经济体和全球南方新兴经济体的新移民流入非洲的人数有所增加。第三，这些移民流动包含企业家和专业人员，他们不仅投资于服务部门，特别是卫生、教育和信息通信技术等对发展至关重要的领域，而且还带来了新的资金、知识和社会网络，这些资金、知识和社会网络有可能增强地方能力，从而支持包容性增长。虽然这些新的移民流有可能在非洲产生更具包容性的增长，但我们对其规模、动机、组织和影响的了解是零散的，而且基本上是道听途说。因此，该网络的中心目标是将北方和南方的研究人员、政策制定者、移民团体和商业代表聚集在一起，就当代南南和南北移民流入非洲和在非洲内部的流动产生和分享现有知识，并设计一项研究议程，以更好地了解这些流动，以及如何通过政策和实践加强他们对包容性增长的贡献。该网络汇集了非洲移民、非洲移民和非洲内部移民研究方面的专业知识。每个国家的共同申请者都有政策相关研究的记录，并且在国家和区域上与学术、商业和政策行为者建立了良好的网络。该网络将在一个为期17个月的工作项目中，通过虚拟和面对面的混合方式进行互动——我们称之为证据交换。这些活动将由非洲的非洲合作伙伴组织，并由具有组织此类学习活动经验的开放大学提供支持。我们的假设是，非洲的新移民社区有可能为他们定居的国家和地区的包容性增长和经济竞争力做出重要贡献。为了评估这些好处是否会发生以及如何发生，这四个非洲国家的共同申请者首先必须绘制现有数据，以便更清楚地了解存在哪些差距以及我们的研究精力应该集中在哪里。重点将是服务业，因为这是一个移民参与率最高的增长部门，非洲共同申请者将在此范围内确定与其背景最相关的三个分部门，即教育、卫生、信息通信技术和文化产业。会议的结果将是建立一个新的国际研究网络，并就移民在包容性增长中的作用向GCRF提供建议。我们还将在2018年为GCRF和其他资助者制定一系列合作投标。该网络将通过使用证据卡和分布式学术和从业者网络进行创新，以满足非洲移民投资者以及与他们接触的当地行动者的学习需求。

The link between migration and development is well-established in theory and policy circles. However, the focus has been on migration from the global South to the global North, underplaying the importance of North-South flows and migration within the global South. These alternative flows have important implications for inclusive growth, understood as economic growth that creates opportunities for all in society and where the monetary and non-monetary benefits are fairly distributed. The Migration for Inclusive African Growth network will look at how inclusive growth is, and can be, strengthened through inward investment by migrant groups in the service sector of 4 African countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique. There are 3 factors which suggest that this is an important focus. First, the economic downturn revealed the fragility of the growth experienced by many African economies over the past decade. Too much of this growth was based on commodity exports whereas recent academic and policy analysis suggests that services may hold the key to future growth. Second, alongside growing migration within Africa, we are also seeing a rise in new migration flows into Africa, both from the highly developed economies of the global North and the emerging economies of the global South. Third, these migrant flows contain entrepreneurs and professionals who not only invest in the service sector, particularly areas of critical importance for development such as health, education, and ICTs, but also bring new finance, knowledge and social networks that have the potential to enhance local capabilities and thereby support inclusive growth.While these new migration flows have the potential to generate more inclusive growth in Africa, our knowledge of their size, motives, organisation and impacts is fragmented and largely anecdotal. Therefore, the central aim of the network is to bring together Northern and Southern researchers, policy makers, migrant groups and business representatives to generate and share existing knowledge on contemporary South-South and North-South migration flows to and within Africa and design a research agenda to better understand these flows and how their contribution to inclusive growth can be enhanced through policy and practice. The network assembles expertise in migration research to, from and within Africa. The co-applicants in each country have a track record in policy-relevant research and are well networked nationally and regionally with academic, business and policy actors. The network will interact through a mix of virtual and face-to-face means - what we call evidence cafés - across a 17-month programme of work. These will be organised by the African partners in Africa and supported by the Open University which has experience of organising such learning events.Our hypothesis is that new migrant communities in Africa have the potential to make important contributions to inclusive growth and economic competitiveness in the countries and locales where they settle. In order to assess whether and how such benefits may be occurring the co-applicants in the 4 African countries first have to map existing data in order to gain a much clearer picture of what gaps exist and where our research energies should be focused. The focus will be services since this is a growth sector where migrant participation appears highest and within this the African co-applicants will identify the 3 most relevant sub-sectors in their contexts from education, health, ICTs, and cultural industries. The outcome will be a new international research network and advice to GCRF on migration's role in inclusive growth. We will also develop a series of collaborative bids to GCRF and other funders in 2018. The network will innovate by using the evidence cafés and distributed academic and practitioner networks to meet the learning needs of migrant investors in Africa as well as local actors who engage with them.