Diaspora Governance and Transnational Entrepreneurship: Some introductory reflections on the rise of an emerging social pattern in migration studies

The function of the networks involved in the diaspora governance is usually to bridge home country governments and Transnational Entrepreneurship (TE). The emerging transnational practice can be explored in terms of the formation of a new global social pattern for many different reasons, all of which make this particular pattern unique. Incorporating TE as a new research field will involve maximising the multidisciplinary and multi-methodological character of migration studies. The master theoretical framework is based on the hypothesis that TE and economic developments are positively linked. Migration scholars have discussed migrant entrepreneurship, mainly centred on the country of residence, and recent special issues have been centred on domestic migrant entrepreneurship. The interface between the emerging transnational migratory dynamics and the home diaspora politics is then at the nuclear core focus of this special issue. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.