English - Support to Participatory Constitution Building in Nepal ...

The Remake of a Statein an individual and refer to brain-drain, then we take knowledge as static.But knowledge, skill or human capital as a whole is neither static nor is itto be measured only in terms of credentials of migrants achieved beforeor after migration. We should not forget to compare migrants’ skill andknowledge in receiving countries to what it would have been had one hadnot migrated. And then there is always the network factor to consider.Keeping in mind that the trend of migration is generally from poorunderdeveloped countries or what Wallerstein would say from peripheralthird world to core countries, before being swayed away by the ‘braindrain’hypothesis, we should analyse what human capitals a migrant mighthave accumulated had he had stayed back home.From a country like Nepal, however critical or lamenting the people maybe of their fellow brothers faring well in different countries, they should beequally unbiased in analysing if their country could have given them theirwall. However, the best option to recover the loss is to use their potentialby creating platforms for exchange and investment. This has to go beyondfinancial investment. Migrants can also serve as a good bridge to increaseknowledge and skill sharing between the professional associations ofhome country and other parts of the world through their transnationalnetworks. Success of state-building process needs competent humanresources and migrants can help build such if Npeal gives platforms forknowledge and skill transfer.Managing international relations and foreign assistance is an integral partof state-building process. Diasporas can be used as mediators betweenhome country and international development agencies intending to workin a country. They can also act as bridges to disseminate knowledge andinformation about the development agency to the home country and therequirement and priority of the community to the development agency.As Wu (2008) observes “All too often China experts in the US cannot speakChinese language. How can they claim to understand a culture withoutknowing how its people communicate?” In such situations diaspora of thecountry can play a vital role as informing agents to development agenciesin designing any project for that country.7. Using Nepali diaspora for state buildingNepal today stands at a crucial point. It has equal chances of leapingforward as it does those of sliding down in the list of least developed andpoorest countries. We have been plagued by the consequences of brutally181