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Why Do States Develop Multi-tier Emigrant Policies? Evidence from Egypt
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Why do states vary their policies towards their citizens abroad, and why are some emigrant groups treated preferentially to others? The literature on the politics of international migration has yet to explore this as a separate field of inquiry, assuming that states adopt a single policy that encourages, sustains or prevents emigration abroad. Yet, in the case of Egypt, the state developed a multi-tiered policy that distinctly favoured specific communities abroad over others. I hypothesise that policy differentiation is based upon the perceived utility of the emigrant group remaining abroad versus the utility of its return. This utility is determined by two factors: the sending state’s domestic political economy priorities and its foreign policy objectives.
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“These include diaspora engagement, diaspora integration and diaspora-building policies which can vary depending on where the diasporas are located and the political interests of the sending state (Gamlen 2014;Mylonas 2013;Tsourapas 2015).”
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- Tsourapas, G.
- Corresponding author
- Tsourapas, Gerasimos
- ORCID
- Tsourapas, Gerasimos
- Venue
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-07-08
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 2192-2214
- ISSN
- 1369-183X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-9451
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- W1931104058
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- 129
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- 53
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- 31.32
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- en
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Keywords
- return migration, policy differentiation, domestic political economy, foreign policy objectives
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