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This is not a good time to be foreign. Anti-immigrant parties are gaining ground in Europe. Britain has been fretting this week over lapses in its border controls. In America Barack Obama has failed to deliver the immigration reform he promised, and Republican presidential candidates would rather electrify the border fence with Mexico than educate the children of illegal aliens. America educates foreign scientists in its universities and then expels them, a policy the mayor of New York calls “national suicide”.

　　This illiberal turn in attitudes to migration is no surprise. It is the result of cyclical economic gloom combined with a secular rise in pressure on rich countries’ borders. But governments now weighing up whether or not to try to slam the door should consider another factor: the growing economic importance of Diasporas, and the contribution they can make to a country’s economic growth.

　　Diaspora networks-of Huguenots, Scots, Jews and many others-have always been a potent economic force, but the cheapness and ease of modern travel has made them larger and more numerous than ever before. There are now 215m first-generation migrants around the world: that’s 3％of the world’s population. If they were a nation, it would be a little larger than Brazil. There are more Chinese people living outside China than there are French people in France. Some 22m Indians are scattered all over the globe. Small concentrations of ethnic and linguistic groups have always been found in surprising places-Lebanese in West Africa, Japanese in Brazil and Welsh in Patagonia, for instance-but they have been joined by newer ones, such as west Africans in southern China.

　　These networks of kinship and language make it easier to do business across borders. They speed the flow of information. Trust matters, especially in emerging markets where the rule of law is weak. So does a knowledge of the local culture. And modern communications make these networks an even mor

A.They return home with knowledge and contracts to set up new businesses
B.They help companies in their home country operate in their host country
C.They work harder for less pay
D.They help to achieve a lower unemployment rate

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答案： A

本题解析：

从文章第五段中可知“An increasing number go home, taking with them both knowledge and contacts”可以看出A选项说移民带着“knowledge”和“contracts”回国是正确的。B选项说移民帮助“companies in their home country”在“their host country”发展业务与第六段他们帮助“companies in their host country”在“their home country”发展业务正相反，所以B项不对。在第七段可以看到，C项中提到移民“work harder for less pay”只是富裕国家居民对移民的抱怨，与题目中海归怎样为自己国家做贡献没有关系，因此C项错误。D项在文中没有提到。