Migration for Inclusive African Growth Network

移徙与发展之间的联系在理论和政策界已得到公认。然而，重点一直放在从全球南方向全球北方的移徙上，低估了南北流动和全球南方内部移徙的重要性。这些替代流动对包容性增长具有重要影响，包容性增长被理解为社会所有人创造机会的经济增长，其中货币和非货币利益得到公平分配。移民促进包容性非洲增长网络将研究如何通过移民群体在尼日利亚、加纳、肯尼亚和莫桑比克4个非洲国家服务部门的内向投资来加强包容性增长。有三个因素表明这是一个重要的焦点。第一，经济下滑揭示了许多非洲经济体过去十年增长的脆弱性。这种增长在很大程度上是基于商品出口，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，在非洲内部移徙不断增加的同时，我们也看到流入非洲的新移徙者增加，既有来自全球北方高度发达经济体的，也有来自全球南方新兴经济体的。第三，这些移民流中有企业家和专业人员，他们不仅投资于服务部门，特别是对发展至关重要的领域，如卫生、教育和信通技术，而且还带来新的资金、知识和社交网络，有可能提高当地能力，从而支持包容性增长。我们对它们的规模、动机、组织和影响的了解是零散的，而且大部分是轶事。因此，该网络的中心目标是将北方和南方的研究人员、决策者、移徙者团体和企业代表聚集在一起，以生成和分享关于流入非洲和非洲内部的当代南南和北南移徙流动的现有知识，并设计一个研究议程，以更好地了解这些流动以及如何通过政策和实践加强其对包容性增长的贡献。该网络汇集了研究进出非洲和非洲内部移徙问题的专门知识。每个国家的共同申请人在政策相关研究方面都有良好的记录，并在国家和区域范围内与学术界、商界和政策参与者建立了良好的网络。该网络将在为期17个月的工作方案中，通过虚拟和面对面的方式-我们称之为证据咖啡馆-进行互动。这些活动将由非洲的非洲伙伴组织，并得到具有组织此类学习活动经验的开放大学的支持。我们的假设是，非洲的新移民社区有潜力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以及如何发生，4个非洲国家的共同申请人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，因为这是一个增长部门，移民参与率最高，在此范围内，非洲共同申请人将确定教育，卫生，信息通信技术和文化产业等3个最相关的子部门。其成果将是建立一个新的国际研究网络，并就移徙在包容性增长中的作用向全球合作论坛提供咨询意见。我们还将在2018年向GCRF和其他资助者开发一系列合作投标。该网络将通过利用证据咖啡馆和分布式学术和从业人员网络进行创新，以满足非洲移民投资者以及与他们打交道的当地行为者的学习需求。

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.