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| Adam | Richard Jr. | Household Expenditure and Investment in Guatemala | World Bank | 2005 |
| This paper uses a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) affects the marginal spending behavior of households on various consumption and investment goods. Contrary to other studies, this study finds that households receiving remittances actually spend less at the margin on consumption - food and consumer goods and durables - than do households receiving no remittances. Instead of spending on consumption, households receiving remittances tend to spend more on investment goods, like education, health and housing. These increased expenditures on education represent investment in human capital. Like other studies, this paper finds that remittance-receiving households spend more at the margin on housing. These increased expenditures on housing represent a type of investment for the migrant as well as a means for boosting local economic development by creating new income and employment opportunities for skilled and unskilled workers. |
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| Adam | Richard Jr. | Remittances, Household Expenditure and Investment in Guatemala | World Bank | 2005 |
| This paper uses a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) affects the marginal spending behavior of households on various consumption and investment goods. Contrary to other studies, this study finds that households receiving remittances actually spend less at the margin on consumption - food and consumer goods and durables - than do households receiving no remittances. Instead of spending on consumption, households receiving remittances tend to spend more on investment goods, like education, health and housing. These increased expenditures on education represent investment in human capital. Like other studies, this paper finds that remittance-receiving households spend more at the margin on housing. These increased expenditures on housing represent a type of investment for the migrant as well as a means for boosting local economic development by creating new income and employment opportunities for skilled and unskilled workers. |
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| Carling | Jorgen | Migrant remittances and Development Cooperation | International Peace Research Institute | 2005 |
| Report aimed at presenting the basis for making sound decisions on whether, how, and where to proceed with initiatives in the field of remittances. It presents and analyzes different strategies for increasing the benefits of remittances, such as: to reduce transfer costs; encourage the use of formal channels; promote transfers that enter financial institutions in the receiving country; set financial incentives schemes; match the development investments of migrant associations with government funds, or improve the investment climate for small and medium enterprises. |
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| Curran | Sara R. | Migration and Cultural Change: A Role for Gender and Social Networks | Journal of International Women's Studies | 2001 |
| Authors incorporate the insights from the literature on gender and migration to address three key concepts that have emerged regarding the role of social networks, households, and communities for affecting migration processes. The three key concepts they interrogate are: "social embeddedness", "circular and cumulative causation", and "relative deprivation". They propose considering these three concepts through the lens of a third area of research, the sociology of culture. Their empirical examples come primarily from Thailand where they draw upon both secondary and primary data but also from secondary data from Latin America and the Caribbean migrant experiences. |
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| Newland | Kathleen | Beyond Remittances: The Role of Diaspora in Poverty Reduction in Their Countries of Origin | Migration Policy Institute | 2004 |
| This paper analyses the impact of established Diaspora on the reduction of poverty, and identifies ways in which policy interventions, especially from donors of official development assistance, might strengthen that impact. This paper specifically examines the role of Diaspora in poverty reduction through four main areas of focus 1) policy and practice towards Diaspora on the part of countries of origin; 2) Diaspora engagement in countries of origin in the economic; 3) social and political spheres and 4) donor engagement with Diaspora. Case studies of China, India, the Philippines, Mexico, Eritrea and Taiwan are used to illustrate six contrasting patterns of different priorities and methods of the relationships between countries of origin and Diasporas. |
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| Orozco | Manuel | Worker Remittances in an International Scope | Inter-American Dialogue (Research Series) | 2003 |
This publication compiles the main results of research conducted until 1998 on the demographic characteristics of Latin American migrants (including residence patterns, household characteristics, income and education); reviews the relevant literature on the origins, uses and impacts of remittances in the origin countries; and suggests ideas and proposals to increase the development impact of remittances, for migrants themselves as well as their communities of origin.
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| Pessar | Patricia | Engendring Migration Studies. The case of New Immigrants in United States | American Behaviour Scientist | 1999 |
Abstract of a review that highlights contributions made by scholars who have treated gender as a central organizing principle in migration and suggests some promising lines for future inquiry. Many significant topics emerge when gender is brought to the foreground, such as how and why women and men experience migration differently and how this contrast affects settlement, return, and transmigration. A gendered perspective demands a scholarly reengagement with those institutions and ideologies immigrants create and encounter in order to determine how patriarchy organizes family life, work, law, public policy, and so on. This reviews encourages an examination of the ways that migration simultaneously reinforces and challenges patriarchy in its multiple forms.
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| Sassen | Saskia | Contrageografías de la globalización. Género y Ciudadanía en los circuitos transfronterizos | | 2003 |
| In the last decade there was a raising presence of women in a great variety of trans-border circuits. These circuits share a characteristic: they generate benefits because the explotation of people in precarious situation. They include illegal traffic of persons to sex industry and to formal and informal market. The generation of these circuits is a consequence of structural conditions. |
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| Stein | Eduardo | Development Role of Remittances. The Case of Central Americans in the U.S. | International Conference on Migrant Remittances | 2003 |
| This study is aimed at gaining a better knowledge of the entire migration process as well as a better understanding of the special relationship between those who migrated and those who stayed in their communities of origin. The study also analyzes what migrants are doing with the earned income that they keep for their living in the U.S. and the money they send home and what use those remittances are being put to. |
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| Vargas-Lundius | Rosemary | Remittances and Rural Development | International Fund for Agriculture Develpment | 2004 |
| This paper deals with the social and economic impact of remittances on the Latin America and Caribbean region. It analyses, from a gender perspective, the continuous interaction of migrants with their communities of origin and the unique role many migrants play as agents of change in both their country of settlement and their country of origin. |
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