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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bakker, Matt, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Colección:Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books.
Online access: Ubiquity Press Ubiquity Press Open Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing the remittances-to-development agenda : Migration, remittances, and development : three vignettes
  • 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.