Brokerage is an essential yet understudied function in social life. In one of the classics in the field of sociology, Georg Simmel differentiated three types of the “third†which help to analyse brokerage: the disinterested mediator or arbitrator, <em>tertius gaudens</em> and <em>divide et impera</em>....

Public debates and research on the two-way relationship between migration and development has increased considerably over the past years. I argue that the current debates around the migration and development nexus should be approached from a transnational angle that is, looking at the emergence...