Author: Germán Zárate-HoyosPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 389958256X
Category : Emigrant remittances
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
New Perspectives on Remittances from Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States
Author: Germán Zárate-HoyosPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 389958256X
Category : Emigrant remittances
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Remittances and Development
Author: Pablo FajnzylberPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821368710
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is at the top of the ranking of remittance receiving regions in the world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittance patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing evidence for Latin America and the Caribbean is restricted to only a few countries, such as Mexico and El Salvador. Because the nature of the phenomenon varies across countries, its development impact and policy implications are also likely to differ in ways that are still largely unknown. This book helps fill the gap by exploring, in the specific context of Latin America and Caribbean countries, some of the main questions faced by policymakers when trying to respond to increasing remittances flows. The book relies on cross-country panel data and household surveys for 11 Latin American countries to explore the development impact of remittance flows along several dimensions: growth, poverty, inequality, schooling, health, labor supply, financial development, and real exchange rates.
The Remittance Landscape
Author: Sarah Lynn LopezPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022620295X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico—one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With The Remittance Landscape, Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with that money, and in particular how the building boom that it has generated has changed Mexican towns and villages. Lopez not only identifies a clear correspondence between the flow of remittances and the recent building boom in rural Mexico but also proposes that this construction boom itself motivates migration and changes social and cultural life for migrants and their families. At the same time, migrants are changing the landscapes of cities in the United States: for example, Chicago and Los Angeles are home to buildings explicitly created as headquarters for Mexican workers from several Mexican states such as Jalisco, Michoacán, and Zacatecas. Through careful ethnographic and architectural analysis, and fieldwork on both sides of the border, Lopez brings migrant hometowns to life and positions them within the larger debates about immigration.
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics
Author: José Antonio OcampoPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019957104X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 959
Book Description
A comprehensive overview of the key factors affecting the development of Latin American economies that examines long-term growth performance, macroeconomic issues, Latin American economies in the global context, technological and agricultural policies, and the evolution of labour markets, the education sector, and social security programmes.
Remittance-led Development: Rebuilding Old Dependencies Or a Powerful Source of Human Development?
Author: Jörg HelmkePublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3899589696
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Parenting from Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance
Author: Maria Rosario T. De GuzmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190265078
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An increasing number of families around the world are now living apart from one another, subsequently causing the defining and redefining of their relationships, roles within the family unit, and how to effectively maintain a sense of familial cohesion through distance. Edited by Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, Jill Brown, and Carolyn Pope Edwards, Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance uniquely highlights how families--both in times of crisis and within normative cultural practices--organize and configure themselves and their parenting through physical separation. In this volume, readers are given a unique look into the lives of families around the world that are affected by separation due to a wide range of circumstances including economic migration, fosterage, divorce, military deployment, education, and orphanhood. Contributing authors from the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, education, and geography all delve deep into the daily realities of these families and share insight on why they live apart from one another, how families are redefined across long distances, and the impact absence has on various members within the unit. An especially timely volume, Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance offers readers an important understanding and examination of family life in response to social change and shifts in the caregiving context.
Remittances and Livelihood Strategies
Author: Ranjita NepalPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3862194280
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
Author: Transfers from International Migration
Author: Béatrice KnerrPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3862192083
Category : Emigrant remittances
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Human capital, occupational status, and social integration of Pakistani immigrants in Germany: Gender Perspectives
Author: Mahmood, SadafPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3737601801
Category : Cultural pluralism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In the early 21st century human capital is an essential ingredient for economic development at the national as well as individual level. Yet, considerable international and gender specific differences are prevailing which are relevant in the context of international labor mobility and in the global race for talents. The present research focuses on human capital formation and transfer of Pakistani migrants in Germany, its impact on their professional standing, and their social integration. The results are providing important input for shaping policy measures in Germany and Pakistan.