The importance of regions in global development

The countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) and those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are crucial to the development of the world economy. Highly skilled migration to and from these regions is key to the recent socio-political transformations that have occurred across the world.

Challenges in skilled migration policies

Despite this, in the states concerned, skilled migration remains an underlying issue of concern, rather than at the top of political agendas, leading to a spectrum of unclear and uncoordinated legal and policy frameworks.

Content and focus of the book

Containing a series of thematic and country-specific overviews, this book highlights the specificity of each region, and identifies and analyses key demographic, economic, legal and political data - allowing for policy prescription.

The debate on brain drain

Skilled Migration, the brain drain, and its impact is an extensively debated phenomenon and this will be an essential companion for social scientists, policy-makers and development scholars.