ABSTRACT
In addition to being a source of remittances, migrants embody entrepreneurial and financial capital as they often return home with work experience, education, and/or foreign contacts on top of any accrued financial savings. Expatriates also play an important role in transmitting a positive image of the homeland abroad. The realisation that migrants provide a benefit to the homeland is at odds with a long history of treating expats as traitors who have turned their backs on their homeland. As such, home countries have deployed any number of strategies to engage their diasporas and entice them to remit their human physical capital. Drawing on the tapping and transnational perspectives, we analyze the efforts that Ireland, Mexico, and Morocco have used to harness the energies of their diasporas.
