Migrating into Financial Markets How Remittances Became a Development Tool / Matt Bakker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakker, Matt, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Mexico.

Economic development.

Emigrant remittances--North America.

Emigrant remittances.

Emigrant remittances--Mexico.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Mexico.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) : PDF, digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015].

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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 least affluent people--have come to be seen in recent years as a fundamental contributor to development in the migrant-sending states of the global South. This book analyzes how the connection between remittances and development was forged through the concrete political and intellectual practices of policy entrepreneurs within a variety of institutional settings, from national government agencies and international development organizations to nongovernmental policy foundations and think tanks"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

OCLC:

1104219873

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access