Migrating into Financial Markets : How Remittances Became a Development Tool

Migrating into Financial Markets How Remittances Became a Development Tool

"We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances--the resources of some of the world's lea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bakker, Matt, 1971- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2015].
Materias:
Economic development > Mexico.
Economic development.
Emigrant remittances > North America.
Emigrant remittances > Mexico.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Emigrant remittances.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429947006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing the remittances-to-development agenda
  • Facts, figures, and the politics of measurement : the construction and diffusion of remittances as a financial flow
  • Forging the remittances-to-development nexus : conceptual linkages and political practices
  • Bringing remittances into the North American economic integration project : a genealogy of Mexican state-led transnationalism
  • From promise to practice : towards financial democracy in North America.

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