Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza
Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, where she managed MPI’s work in the Asia-Pacific region. Her areas of expertise include temporary and circular migration, particularly between Asia and the Middle East; diaspora policy; and the migration-development nexus.
Before joining MPI, Ms. Mendoza was an Edward Weintal Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy in Washington, DC and a factory worker and part-time domestic worker in Reykjavik, Iceland. She also worked as Regional Research Officer at the International Organization for Migration in Bangkok and as consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC and in Sydney.
She holds a master’s degree in foreign service, with honors, from Georgetown University, where she concentrated in international development; and a bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines.
Read Ms. Mendoza's report, Guiding the Invisible Hand: Making Migration Intermediaries Work for Development.
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This briefing in Bangkok launched an MPI-IOM Issue in Brief that reviews the impacts of the Philippines' successful labor export policy on skills development and human capital growth. While Filipino migrant workers contribute significantly to the national economy with the remittances they send home (more than USD 27 billion in 2014), this reliance on exporting labor raises an important question: Has the nation’s focus on preparing workers to leave compromised human capital development at home?
This discussion, at the Bangkok launch of an MPI-International Organization for Migration issue brief, explored the social and health impacts of international labor migration on the children who remain at home when one or both their parents emigrate.
This Bangkok launch of an MPI-IOM Issue in Brief explored the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community and its vision of a freer flow of skilled labor, as well as other migration issues affecting the region.
This discussion marked the release in Bangkok of an MPI-IOM issue brief examining the role of migration as a driver for development in Asia and how to integrate migration-related targets and indicators into the post-2015 development agenda.
Offering insights on migration issues affecting the Asia-Pacific region, this event launched an issue brief that explores Asia-Pacific priorities for the 2014 Global Forum on Migration and Development and examines ways the GMFD can be a results-oriented forum.
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This discussion, at the Bangkok launch of an MPI-International Organization for Migration issue brief, explored the social and health impacts of international labor migration on the children who remain at home when one or both their parents emigrate.