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How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands

Autor Susan Eva Eckstein, Adil Najam
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2013
How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become agents of homeland development. The essays that follow focus on the varied impacts immigrants have had in China, India, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Mozambique, and Turkey. One contributor examines the role Indians who worked in Silicon Valley played in shaping the structure, successes, and continued evolution of India's IT industry. Another traces how Salvadoran immigrants extend U.S. gangs and their brutal violence to El Salvador and neighboring countries. The tragic situation in Mozambique of economically desperate émigrés who travel to South Africa to work, contract HIV while there, and infect their wives upon their return is the subject of another essay. Taken together, the essays show the multiple ways countries are affected by immigration. Understanding these effects will provide a foundation for future policy reforms in ways that will strengthen the positive and minimize the negative effects of the current mobile world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822353959
ISBN-10: 0822353954
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 6 tables, 11 figures
Dimensiuni: 158 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

List of tables, graphs and figures; PrefaceONE: Homeland Impacts of Developing Country Immigrants: An Overview By Susan Eckstein; TWO: Migration and Development: Reconciling Opposite Views By Alejandro Portes; THREE: How Overseas Chinese Spurred the Economic “Miracle” in Their Homeland By Min Ye; FOUR:Immigrants’ Globalization of the Indian Economy By Kyle Eischen; FIVE: How Cuban Americans Are Unwittingly Transforming Their Homeland By Susan Eckstein; SIX: Immigrant Impacts in Mexico: A Tale of Dissimilation By David Scott FitzGerald; SEVEN: “Turks Abroad” Redefine Turkish Nationalism By Riva Kastoryano; EIGHT:Moroccan Migrants as Unlikely Captains of Industry: Remittances, Financial Intermediation, and La Banque Centrale Populaire By Natasha Iskander; NINE: The Gender Revolution: Migrant Mothering and Social Transformations in the Philippines By Rhacel Salazar Parreñas; TEN: Beyond Social Remittances: Migration and Transnational Gangs in Central America By Jose Miguel Cruz; ELEVEN: Economic Uncertainties, Social Strains, and HIV Risks: Effects of Male Labor Migration on Rural Women in Mozambique By Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjivar, and Boave CauIndex; Contributors

Recenzii

"Despite the breathless attention focused on how immigrants affect countries of destination, their influence on countries of origin is often more profound. Susan Eckstein and Adil Najam offer a welcome corrective to this one-sidedness and move beyond the clichéd notions of both left and right. Drawing on work by the world's leading scholars of immigration, they reveal international migration to be neither a panacea nor a curse, but a basic component of globalization that can be turned to good or ill depending on decisions taken in sending and receiving nations and the actions of immigrants themselves. This collection is essential reading for those wishing to move beyond ideology and develop a fuller understanding of the place of international migration in the world today."—Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University"In a welcome look at the flip side of immigration, How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands shows how emigration is not as simple as it looks. This book is an important reminder that economic and cultural remittances affect the home country for better or for worse, from needed investments to new models of behavior—mimicked or mocked—to AIDS."—Nancy L. Green, coeditor of Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation

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How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries.