Sending Money Home - Hispanic Remittances and Community Development

The flow of money southward from the United States has evolved from a stream flowing from families through informal networks to a major river with new tributaries fed by transnational migrant organizations, channeled through an increasingly formal marketplace, and attracting the involvement of home country governments. This volume tracks the evolution of the flow of money 'home, ' offering new data to enhance the picture and understanding of this important economic phenomenon

List of contents

Part 1 I The Developmental Role of Remittances in U. S. Latino Communities and Latin American Countries Chapter 2 I A New Phase in the Story of Remittances Chapter 3 II Binational Impact of Latino Remittances Chapter 4 III Migrant Remittances to Latin America: Reviewing the Literature Part 5 II The Role of Hometown Associations Chapter 6 IV Latino Hometown Associations as Agents of Development Chapter 7 V Hometown Associations and Remittances in Mexico Chapter 8 VI Remittances and Markets Part 9 III The Economics of Sending Remittances Chapter 10 VII Sending Money Home...for Now Chapter 11 VIII Do Government Programs "Crowd In" Remittances? Part 12 IV Opportunities and Constraints on the Future of Remittance Flows Chapter 13 IX Conclusion

About the author

Rodolfo O. de la Garza is vice president of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute and professor of political science at Columbia University. Briant Lindsay Lowell is director of research at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rodolfo de la Garza (Editor), Rodolfo O de La Garza (Editor), Rodolfo O. De La Garza (Editor), Briant Lowell (Editor), Briant Lindsay Lowell (Editor), Lowell Briant Lindsay (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9780742518865
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1886-5
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, Labour / income economics, Migration, immigration & emigration, Labour Economics, International Economics, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples