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and growth ultimately depends on the responsiveness and flexibility oflocal markets and creating such conditions is the central challenge facingpolicymakers. Orozco also points out that other migration-related economicactivities can contribute to the development of migrants’ home countries.Referring to tourism, telecommunications, transportation, trade, andremittance transfer businesses as “the 5-Ts,” he argues that these links cancontribute to economic growth in both sending and receiving countries.In the final chapter, the editors assess the collective contributions of thevolume chapters toward linking the study of internal and internationalmigration and their impacts on development. To do so, we examine thedifferent perspectives that the chapters bring, first, to understanding therelations between internal and international migration, and second, tocomparisons between internal and international migration at different levelsof analysis. These two approaches then lead us to assess conceptual andmethodological innovations that have been introduced in linking researchand analysis of internal and international migration and their developmentalimpacts. Finally, we consider the range of implications for policy that theauthors draw from their different research foci and perspectives. Thisdiscussion is framed in terms of the geographies of sending and receivingareas and levels of social organization that, we propose, can inform futureresearch and policy development not only related to labor migration andremittances, but also other types of migration and resource transfers thatlink the processes of migration and economic developments betweendifferent socio-cultural contexts.23