Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/governance
“We see mobility as vital to human development and
movement as a natural expression of people’s desire to
choose how and where to lead their lives”
UNDP Human Development Report 2009
Contact Information
Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Migration and Development Project
P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 43 388 4650, Fax: +31 43 388 4864
Email: migration-mgsog@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Migration and Development:
A World in Motion
Migration and Development:
A World in Motion
Migration impacts both the destination and the origin
country. This project seeks to better understand the
migration and development relationships through
the destination case of the Netherlands and the origin
countries of Afghanistan, Burundi, Ethiopia and Morocco.
The program aims to stimulate new approaches to
development cooperation using the available knowledge on sustainable development and poverty reduction
and creating new evidence on effective policies.
Research Themes
• Remittances, development and poverty alleviation
- The project investigates the impact of the financial
remittances of the migrants’ families in the home countries.
- The project will apply the livelihoods approach in post
conflict areas.
• Brain drain and development policy
- The project examines how the education and the
integration of the migrants in the Netherlands impact
their (financial and social) remittances behavior.
- The project looks at the role of diaspora organizations
in influencing migration policy in the Netherlands.
• Return migration in the life cycle of migrants
- The project examines the relationship between return
migration and development.
- The project examines the successful reintegration of
the return migrants in Morocco.
- The project explores the impact of return migrants on
their families in Afghanistan, Burundi and Ethiopia.
• Migration and Development in EU Policy
- The project investigates migration partnerships between the
European Union and eastern European/African countries.
• The External Dimension of an EU Migration Policy
- The project analyzes the regulation and management of
migration in association and partnership agreements,
which the EU has concluded with third countries, from a
legal perspective.
Research Dissemination
The research will result in the following outputs:
PhD dissertations, academic articles, and numerous policy
briefs and policy papers. These policy briefs and reports will
be made available through the following websites:
IS Academy
www.is-academie.nl
Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/governance
Research Methods
• The data will be collected among migrants in the Netherlands
stemming from 4 countries: Afghanistan, Burundi, Morocco
and Ethiopia and their families and networks in
the country of origin.
• In the Netherlands, surveys will be conducted with all
groups of migrants from the 4 countries of interest
(minimum 1,000 respondents).
• In countries of origin, surveys will be conducted with
remittance receivers, non-migrants, and return migrants,
in order to be able to draw comparisons between the three
groups (minimum 4,000 respondents).
• Data collection in all the countries will be organized in
collaboration with local research partners.
• Data will be collected both by quantitative surveys
(household and community level) and by qualitative data
gathering methods.
• Interviews on migration policy partnerships will be carried out
with government officials in Belgium, the Netherlands, France,
Austria, Cape Verde and Senegal.
• A legal analysis of legislation and case law in conjunction with
an evaluation of academic writings will be carried out.
Research Partners
• Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Maastricht University:
Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG)
Faculty of Law (FoL)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASOS)
• International Centre for Migration Policy Development
(ICMPD)
• European Centre for Development Policy Management
(ECDPM)
• European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA)
Survey Partners
• Afghanistan- Afghan Public Policy Research Organization
(APPRO)
• Burundi- Université Sagesse d’Afrique
• Ethiopia- St. Mary’s University College
• Morocco- Mohamed V University