Role of Iranian immigrants in Iran - Russia trade development

Mehdi Afzali

doi:10.22363/2313-2329-2018-26-4-697-705

Abstract

Migration and international trade are two important dimensions of globalization. Migration plays an important role in development of countries. Immigrants send their remittances, ideas, innovation and investments to their home countries. Migrants can influence on countries’ trade, they are able to decrease the transactional costs for companies willing to trade. In this article has been tried to study the case of Iranian immigrants in Russia. We can see that Iranians have migrated mostly to developed countries such as USA, Europe, Australia, Canada and part of them have migrated to the Persian Gulf countries. And of course many of these immigrants have high levels of economic, human, social, and cultural potential, which can be used for social and economic development of the country. Iranians have migrated to two kinds of countries. First, those who are developed and second those with high income which have the potential of trade with Iran. When we look at these two groups they either migrated to American and European countries, which this group has a high educated and human capital background or they migrated to neighbor Persian Gulf countries that they have mostly strong economic backgrounds which increased the chance of trade. In this article Iranian businessmen have been interviewed and they have explained their roles in trade, and if they had any advantages in comparison with those in the home country.

Highlights

Migration and international trade are two important factors of globalization
When we look at these two groups they either migrated to American and European countries, which this group has a high educated and human capital background or they migrated to neighbor Persian Gulf countries that they have mostly strong economic backgrounds which increased the chance of trade
Based on information explained above this article is designed to find out if the Iranian immigrants and entrepreneurs in Russia could make any differences in business and trade process between the countries

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Introduction

Migration and international trade are two important factors of globalization. It is very important to know if governments could create a positive connection between immigration and their international trade. It is interesting to know if it is a connection, how they could encourage the required immigrants. Volume of services traded have been increased over the period of 1980 to 2011 and outpaced growth in goods trade, and global trade grew on average by 7.3 % annually while services trade grew by 8.2 % per year. In this period immigration in many developed countries started to increase. The link between immigrants and trade has not been fully explored

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