Migration from North Africa and the Middle east. Skilled migrants, Development and Globalization

One out of four Arab migrants in the West has a university education. Those denouncing brain drain see developing countries as victims of more advanced economies. These schematic visions, however, do not fully reflect a more nuanced reality and interests that may be less conflictual than they, at first, seem. The present volume comprises a selection of papers that were prepared for the research programme on highly-skilled migration in the Arab region and Sub-Saharan Africa carried out by the Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) as part of the MPC..