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- Title
Diaspora strategies, skilled migrants and human capital enhancement in Jamaica.
- Authors
MULLINGS, BEVERLEY
- Abstract
In an attempt to boost its stock of human capital and access to global flows of investment, knowledge and innovation, the Jamaican state has begun to turn to skilled members of its diaspora as a vital and untapped economic resource. State strategies to accumulate human capital within the diaspora, however, raise questions about the culture of labour markets and their effects on human capital enhancement and the transfer of knowledge. Drawing on the labour market experiences of skilled members of the Jamaican diaspora currently living on the island, I explore the possibilities and limits that skilled diaspora network strategies offer for capturing, transforming and embedding knowledge, innovation and investment capital in Jamaica.
- Subjects
JAMAICA; DIASPORA; MIGRANT labor; SKILLED labor; HUMAN capital; NEOLIBERALISM; SOCIAL networks; LABOR market
- Publication
Global Networks, 2011, Vol 11, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
1470-2266
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1471-0374.2010.00305.x