As the volume title suggests, three of the studies deal with the effects of remittances on incomes and measures of well-being, four address various aspects of highly skilled migration, while the remaining paper examines the determinants of migration from rural Mexico to the US. Each of these is certainly topical: the rise in reported global remittance flows has been a major spur to the recent surge in interest in migration, especially in Latin America; global movements of the highly skilled escalated rapidly in the 1990s leaving at least some countries very concerned, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa; and the current debate over US immigration reform focuses almost entirely upon the Mexican case. In each of the three papers