GCRF Inclusive Societies - Migration for Inclusive African Growth

在经历了几十年的悲观情绪之后，一些非洲经济体最近经历了世界上最快的增长速度，尽管这种增长尚未惠及最贫穷的国家。拟议的研究旨在解决将国家经济增长转变为更具包容性的增长这一挑战的一个方面，即移徙。围绕非洲的乐观情绪的一个结果是，在快速增长的非洲经济体内部和向这些经济体流动的移民出现了新的、更多样化的流动。然而，我们对这些移民流动以及它们是否能为非洲发展和再分配潜力带来明显的好处知之甚少。该项目的总体目标是了解最近在非洲境内和流向非洲的移徙是否以及在多大程度上促进了非洲大陆更可持续和更具包容性的增长，并使政策制定者和从业人员能够利用这一知识实现更具包容性的增长。这项研究所涉及的理论和政策议程是认识到移徙是促进(国际)国家贸易、投资和其他各类财政资源以及转让技术、技能和知识的关键渠道。我们的假设是，这些当代移民社区有潜力为可持续和包容性增长作出重要贡献，不仅在他们的原籍国，而且在他们定居的非洲国家。为了评估这种益处是否以及如何发生，我们将在经济合作与发展组织发展援助委员会名单上的4个非洲国家--尼日利亚、加纳、肯尼亚和莫桑比克--进行研究。这将审查一系列当代移民群体(包括欧洲、新兴大国、非洲侨民、非洲内部和国内)，并审查他们可能通过哪些渠道为非洲的包容性增长做出贡献。部门的重点将是制造业、信息技术和服务业，因为这些是非洲参与更具包容性增长潜力较大的部门。随着对非洲大陆当代移民社区的第一次多国比较研究，该项目将更加有力地认识到包容性增长作为一个分析概念的价值。该项目还从根本上涉及重塑政策和实践，以支持更具包容性的增长。它源于ESRC GCRF Network的一笔赠款，该赠款巩固了具有国家、大陆和国际专业知识和政策影响的移民研究人员的强大网络。它们是非洲移徙与发展政策中心(肯尼亚)、非洲移徙研究网(尼日利亚)、大学移徙研究中心。加纳大学和爱德华多·蒙德兰大学政策分析中心。(莫桑比克)。目前的网络通过国家讲习班与政策制定者、研究人员和移徙企业接触，以确定学习需求和知识差距。这一共同设计过程为当前投标及其影响活动提供了信息。政策制定者将受益于有关这些新移民企业界性质的更好信息，以及通过能力建设帮助官员更好地了解问题和数据来源。我们还将为非洲记者提供培训，使他们能够更有效地报道移民问题。我们的非洲合作组织已经在小规模上为官员和记者提供了类似的培训，但这个项目提供了扩大规模的机会。来自四个非洲国家和移民来源国的商人将通过当地商业协会组织的网络活动受益。广大公众将受益于关于移徙的成本和收益的更知情的辩论。一系列学科的学者将受益于对这些流动和影响的性质的新知识，以及更广泛的重新思考关于“南方”行为者在国际发展中的作用的辩论。

After decades of pessimism some African economies have recently experienced the fastest growth rates in the world, though this growth has not yet trickled down to the poorest. The proposed research aims to address one aspect of the challenge of transforming national economic growth into more inclusive growth; namely migration. An outcome of the optimism around Africa is new and more diverse flows of migrants within and to the faster growing African economies. Yet we know very little about these migration flows and whether they offer discernable benefits for African development and redistributive potential. The overarching aim of the project is to understand whether and to what extent recent migration within and to Africa is contributing to more sustainable and inclusive growth on the continent and to enable policy-makers and practitioners to harness this knowledge for more inclusive growth.The theoretical and policy agenda to which this research speaks is the recognition that migration is a key channel for promoting (inter)national trade, investment and other kinds of financial resources, and transferring technology, skills and knowledge. Our hypothesis is that these contemporary migrant communities have the potential to make important contributions to sustainable and inclusive growth, not only in their countries of origin but also in the African countries where they settle. To assess whether and how such benefits may be occurring we will undertake research in 4 African countries - Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Mozambique - that are on the OECD DAC list. This will examine a range of contemporary migrant groups (including European, emerging power, African diaspora, intra-African, and internal) and examine those channels through which they may contribute to inclusive growth in Africa. The sectoral focus will be manufacturing, IT and services since these are sectors where African participation has a higher potential for more inclusive growth. The outcomes will be a more robust sense of the value of inclusive growth as an analytical concept alongside the first multi-country comparative study of contemporary migrant communities on the continent.The project is also fundamentally concerned with re-shaping policy and practice to support more inclusive growth. It arises out of an ESRC GCRF Network grant that has cemented a strong network of migration researchers with national, continental and international expertise and policy reach. They are the African Migration and Development Policy Centre (Kenya), Network for Migration Research on Africa (Nigeria), The Centre for Migration Studies, Univ. of Ghana and The Centre for Policy Analysis, Eduardo Mondlane Univ. (Mozambique). The current network has engaged, through national workshops, with policy-makers, researchers and migrant businesses to identify learning needs and knowledge gaps. This co-design process informs the current bid and its impact activities. Policy-makers will benefit from improved information about the nature of these new migrant business communities, as well as through capacity building to help officials understand the issues and data sources better. We will also deliver training to African journalists so they can report on migration issues more effectively. Our African co-Is have delivered similar training to officials and journalists on a small scale but this project offers the opportunity to scale this up. Business people from the four African and the migrants' source countries will benefit through networking events organised by local business associations. The general public will benefit from better-informed debate about the costs and benefits of migration. Academics across a range of disciplines will benefit from new knowledge of the nature of these flows and impacts, as well as a wider venture of rethinking debates on the role of 'Southern' actors in international development.