Migrating into financial markets : how remittances became a development tool /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bakker, Matt, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books.
Online access: Ubiquity Press Ubiquity Press Open Books.
Subjects:
Emigrant remittances.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Emigrant remittances > Mexico.
Emigrant remittances > North America.
Economic development.
Economic development > Mexico.
Envois de fonds des émigrants.
Émigration et immigration > Aspect économique.
Envois de fonds des émigrants > Mexique.
Envois de fonds des émigrants > Amérique du Nord.
Développement économique.
Développement économique > Mexique.
economic development.
Development economics and emerging economies Mod Development economics and emerging economies.
Economic systems and structures.
Economics, finance, business and management.
Economics.
International economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
Economic development
Emigrant remittances
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
North America.
Mexico.
Migration.
Emigration and immigration.
Payments.
Financial relations.
E-docs.
Mexico
North America
Migration
Sustainable development
International policy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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