ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Diasporas, Remittances and Africa South of the Sahara
A Strategic Assessment

Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos

Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos is a political scientist with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). He works on forced migrations and has published various books on the issue, especially on Somali refugees (Diaspora et terrorisme, 2003). He lived for several years in Nigeria , South Africa , and Kenya , and conduc ted field investigations in the Comores, Cape Verde and Lesotho in 2002 and 2003. This study is the result of long-term research on the subject.