Thomas Lacroix is CNRS Deputy Director of Migrinter, University of Poitiers, France. His work addresses the relationships between transnationalism and development, with a specific focus on North African emigrants. In 2005 he published Les réseaux marocains du développement. He is also also Associate Editor of the journal Migration Studies.

"This monograph synthesizes and builds on Lacroix's long-term research on three diasporas: Algerian Kabyles and Moroccan Chleuhs (both Berber subgroups) living in France and Indian Sikhs living in the United Kingdom. ... This book is rich and insightful, and I recommend it as a resource for migration scholars (faculty and postgraduate students, at least), both theoretically and empirically. For policymakers it points (correctly) to the ambiguities and downright muddle of policy toward migrants in both home and host countries." (Martin Evans, International Migrant Review, Vol. 51 (1), 2017)

• IntroductionPART I: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL OUTLINE1. Selecting Groups: Moroccan Chleuhs, Algerian Kabyles And Indian Sikhs In Europe2. Outline Of A Structure/Agency To Hometown TransnationalismPART II: TRANSNATIONALISM: AN EMERGENT PROCESS3. Migration And The Village Lifeworld: Exploring The Ambivalence Of The Migration Act4. Hometown Organising And The Multipolarisation Of Migrants' LifePART III: STATE POLICIES AND IMMIGRANT VOLUNTEERING: THE DEVELOPMENTALIST TURN5. The Indian And North African Volunteer Sector In Europe 6. Migrant Organisations And The New Governance Of Development Conclusion: Moving Beyond The Postmodern Trap Of Transnational Studies