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When migrants go home, they bring back money, skills and ideas that can change a country

  • Written by Benjamin Waddell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College
When migrants go home, they bring back money, skills and ideas that can change a countryBetween 1990 to 2015, nearly half of all migrants worldwide went back to their country of birth, whether by choice or by force.Shutterstock

Escaping violence, war, poverty and environmental disaster, more people than ever are migrating worldwide. Some 258 million people – 3.4% of the global population – live outside their country of...

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