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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakker, Matt, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigrant remittances.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Migrating into Financial Markets

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California University of California Press 2015

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part 1. The Remittances-to-Development Agenda at the Global Scale

1. Introducing the Remittances-to-Development Agenda: Migration, Remittances, and Development - Three Vignettes

2. Facts, Figures, and the Politics of Measurement: The Construction and Diffusion of Remittances as a Financial Flow

3. Forging the Remittances-to-Development Nexus: Conceptual Linkages and Political Practices

Part 2. The Long Road to Financial Democracy in North America: From State-Led Transnationalism to Intergovernmental Collaboration

4. Bringing Remittances into the North American Economic-Integration Project: A Genealogy of Mexican State-Led Transnationalism

5. From Promise to Practice: Toward Financial Democracy in North America

6. Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520960930

0520960939

OCLC:

927153526

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.5