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How to reach expatriate members of a diaspora is a major challenge in diaspora studies and policy-making. This chapter relates some of the results of research conducted through the CIDESAL project (2009–2013), which explored new avenues for connecting with diasporas. The originality of the research lay in the use of an innovative source of data from an on-line database, the Web of Science (WoS). A methodology such as “Mobility by the WoS” makes it possible to considerably increase the capacity to contact, know and mobilize the diaspora. The database of the WoS lends itself well to building further links with the scientific diaspora. In the three countries considered in the survey and discussed in this chapter (Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay), it is clear that return migration is a significant element of the overall migration and diaspora experience.
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Apart from the work in data analysis and processing by the authors, this study required a number of other diverse skills. The extraction of the co-publication data from the Web of Science was carried out by Doriane Lemeltier, Engineer for the Atomic Energy Commission in France. The presentation and online placement of the questionnaire was carried out by Alejandro Blanco, consultant on diasporas, in Bogota, Colombia. The design, planning and execution of the procedures for the mass emailing to 37,000 authors was undertaken by Fabrice Thomas Ferre of the IRD and Baptiste Billiot from the information technology company Osiatis. The removal of duplicate references of co-authors was conducted by Hanka Hensens, documentalist at the IRD. Finally, the mapping was carried out by Stéphane Coursière, from the Laboratoire ArtDev at the University of Montpellier 3. Without their skills and collaboration, the study could not have been completed. We would like to express our profound gratitude for their contributions.
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Meyer, JB., Miao, F.W., Zhao, Y. (2016). Visualizing the Diaspora: New Options. In: Chikanda, A., Crush, J., Walton-Roberts, M. (eds) Diasporas, Development and Governance. Global Migration Issues, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22165-6_13
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