Objective Migrants play a key role in fostering international integration. This project aims to highlight the ties that migrants maintain with their home country, as they integrate in the host country. The project will assess how migration contributes towards increasing trade, creating larger capital flows (mainly through remittances), and increasing foreign direct investment (by spreading information on investment opportunities). The project will therefore advance the existing literature by bringing several aspects of the globalisation process into an integrated framework. It will highlight the key role of migrants' networks in sustaining ties with the home country and fostering integration in the host country.The research agenda will be organized around five themes:(1) Migrants' transnational practices;(2) Remittances, the skill composition of migration, and social networks;(3) International trade flows, foreign direct investment and migration;(4) Migrants' integration, social and business networks;(5) Gender and the intra-household effects of migration.Theme 1 will provide an overarching assessment of migrants' transnationality. Themes 2 and 3 will focus on migrants' links with their home country; Themes 4 and 5 will concentrate on migrants' integration in the host country. The network partners will bring to bear a range of methodological perspectives and approaches, drawing on the skills of social scientists (sociologists, economists, geographers, demographers and lawyers) and institutions (universities, international institutions, research centres).TToK activities will be a key component of TOM. The project will benefit in this respect from the breadth and the complementarity of research interests and training capabilities of the participating institutions. The network's training activities will include formal instruction, 'hands on' mentoring and 'learning by doing' in a peer group environment. The network will provide specific measures to train ESRs and ERs. Fields of science social sciencessociologyglobalizationsocial sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrationssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce Programme(s) FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 Topic(s) MOBILITY-1.1 - Marie Curie Research Training Networks (RTN) Call for proposal FP6-2005-MOBILITY-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme RTN - Marie Curie actions-Research Training Networks Coordinator UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA EU contribution No data Address VIA ORAZIO RAIMONDO 18 ROMA Italy See on map Total cost No data Participants (14) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address 90-98 GOSWELL ROAD LONDON See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES Belgium EU contribution No data Address AV.F.D. ROOSEVELT 50 BRUXELLES See on map Total cost No data FORUM INTERNAZIONALE ED EUROPEO DI RICERCHE SULL'IMMIGRAZIONE Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA PONZA 4/E+A681 TORINO See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT FUER ARBEITSMARKT- UND BERUFSFORSCHUNG (IAB) DER BUNDESAGENTUR FUER ARBEIT Germany EU contribution No data Address WEDDIGENSTRASSE 20-22 NUERNBERG See on map Total cost No data CENTRO DI STUDI POLITICA INTERNAZIONALE Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA D'ARACOELI, 11 ROMA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN Belgium EU contribution No data Address PLACE DE L'UNIVERSITE 1 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE See on map Total cost No data LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address HOUGHTON STREET LONDON See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE Switzerland EU contribution No data Address 24 RUE DU GÃ'©NÃ'©RAL-DUFOUR GENEVA 4 See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ETUDES DEMOGRAPHIQUES France EU contribution No data Address 133 BOULEVARD DAVOUT PARIS See on map Total cost No data CENTRO DI STUDI LUCA D'AGLIANO Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA PRINCIPE AMEDEO 34 TORINO See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address GOWER STREET LONDON See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data HAMBURGISCHES WELT-WIRTSCHAFTS-ARCHIV _ HAMBURG INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS Germany EU contribution No data Address NEUER JUNGFERNSTIEG 21 HAMBURG See on map Total cost No data LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATE Latvia EU contribution No data Address RAINA BLVD, 19 RIGA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO. Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA GIUSEPPE VERDI 8 TORINO See on map Total cost No data