Textbox 1: Circular Migration as a Development Tool: The Mauritian Approach

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International