At this moment I am starting my preliminar investigations for my Master thesis project, which will talk about the participation of immigrants in Cooperation projects with their home countries.
The debate that links migration with development constitutes a relatively new focus and has caused the reformulation of Migration as well as Cooperation policies in several countries. This because, migration can be considered as a potential motor for development of both the host country and the home country. Therefore several cooperation projects have been developed involving the active participation of immigrants and focused on the development of their home countries. Their participation has been both in the development of policies or in the implementation of the projects themselves, many times in the mark of promoting circular migration.
I hope with this investigation to show the success of these projects and with it to stress the possitive contributions of immigrants. Instead of focusing on a closed Migration Policy, we should better focus on improving situations which cause people to leave their countries. Now economic migrants are the majority, the lack of development is definatively one of the most important issues to adress. Closing the borders instead doesn't change anything about these situations and therefore just moves migrantion from legal to illegal streams.
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