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Brinkerhoff, Jennifer M. "Diasporas and Development: What Role for Foreign Aid?" In Louis Picard, ed., Foreign Aid Policy: Issues and Debates for the Next Half Century. National Academy of Public Administration Book Series. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, June 2007.

Brinkerhoff, Jennifer M. "Contributions of Digital Diasporas to Governance Reconstruction in Post-Conflict and Fragile States: Potential and Promise." In Derick W. Brinkerhoff, ed. Rebuilding Governance in Post-Conflict Societies: What's New, What's Not?, London: Routledge, 2007: 185-203.

Brinkerhoff, Jennifer M. "Migration Mobilization Factors and Policy Options." In Clay Wescott and Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, eds. Converting Migration Drains into Gains: Harnessing the Resources of Overseas Professionals. Manila: Asian Development Bank, 2006: 127-153. Available online

Brinkerhoff, Jennifer M.; Liesl Riddle. "Diasporas as Institutional Change Agents: What Can We Learn from Thamel. Com?" Under review at Journal of International Management.

Gillespie, Kate, Edward Sayre, and Liesl Riddle. 2001. "Changes in Palestinian-American Interest in Homeland Investment 1994-1999." Middle East Studies Journal 55(2): 237-255.

Gillespie, Kate, Liesl Riddle, Edward Sayre, and David Sturges. 1999. "Diaspora Homeland Investment." Journal of International Business Studies 30(3): 623-634.

Lubkemann, Stephen. "Migratory Coping in Wartime Mozambique: An Anthropology of Violence and Displacement in 'Fragmented Wars.'" Journal of Peace Research 42(4) (2005): 493-508.

Lubkemann, Stephen. "Where To Be An Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-Spiritual Worlds and Post-Conflict Settlement Decision-Making Among Displaced Mozambicans." Journal of Refugee Studies. 15(2)(2002): 189-212.
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Lubkemann, Stephen. "Foreign Aid, Local Capacity and Civil Society in the Reconstruction of Mozambique's National Health System." In I. Smillie (ed.) Patronage and Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crisis. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2001: 77-106.

Marano, Valentina and Liesl Riddle. 2007. "Investors Without Borders: An Online Lending Platform for Ghanaian Small and Medium Enterprises," Teaching Case and Note written for the GW-CIBER Institutions and Development Case Collection.

Nielsen, Tjai and Liesl Riddle. "Bridging the Cultural Divide: A Multi-level Model of Diaspora Homeland Investment." Submitted to Academy of Management 2007 annual conference. Paper available online.

Price, Marie. "Placing Transnational Migrants: The Sociospatial Networks of Bolivians in the United States" in Race, Ethnicity and Place in a Changing America, edited by John W. Frazier and Eugene L. Tettey-Fio. Binghamton, NY: Global Academic Publishing, 2006, pp. 209-219.

Price, Marie. "How Global are Latin America's World Cities: An Analysis of Immigration to Latin America's Major Cities." Under review at Journal of Latin American Geography.

Price, Marie. "Globalization as Emigration: The Rise of Transnational Livelihoods in Andean America" in preparation for the Journal of Latin American Studies.

Price, Marie and Lisa Benton-Short, eds. Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities. Syracuse University Press, in Press.

Price, Marie, I. Cheung, S. Friedman and A. Singer. "The World Settles In: Washington, D.C. as an Immigrant Gateway." Urban Geography 26(1) (2005): 61-83.

Riddle, Liesl. "Engaging the Diaspora in Homeland Economic Involvement." In Jennifer Brinkerhoff, ed. Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential, under review, Lynne Reinner Publishers.

Riddle, Liesl and Valentina Marano. "Homeland Export and Investment Promotion Programs for the Diaspora: The Case of Afghanistan." In Jennifer Brinkerhoff, ed. Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential, under review, Lynne Reinner Publishers.

Riddle, Liesl; Jennifer Brinkerhoff; Tjai Nielsen. (in-press) "Partnering to Beckon them Home: Public Sector Innovation for Diaspora Homeland Investment." Journal of Public Administration & Development.