“…Reddy et al, 2004;Voigt-Graf et al, 2007). Extensive attention has also been given to the impact of remittances on social protection and migration intentions (Jimenez and Brown, 2013;Leeves, 2009;Kaitani, et al, 2011), political instability as a migration determinant (Narayan and Smyth, 2003) and human capital loss as an emigration cost (Reddy et al, 2004;Chandra, 2004). In other words, the existing literature centres around the patterns, intentions, benefits and costs of (skilled) migrations, with an emphasis on their development impacts.…”