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How immigrants impact their homelands / edited by Susan Eva Eckstein & Adil Najam.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection examines the economic, social, and cultural effects that immigrants have had on their home countries, including China, Cuba, India, Mexico, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Turkey.
- Contents:
- Homeland impacts of developing country immigrants : an overview / by Susan Eckstein
- Migration and development : reconciling opposite views / by Alejandro Portes
- How overseas Chinese spurred the economic "miracle" in their homeland / by Min Ye
- Immigrants? : globalization of the Indian economy / by Kyle Eischen
- How Cuban Americans are unwittingly transforming their homeland / by Susan Eckstein
- Immigrant impacts in Mexico : a tale of dissimilation / by David Scott Fitzgerald
- "Turks abroad" redefine turkish nationalism / by Riva Kastoryano
- Moroccan migrants as unlikely captains of industry : remittances, financial intermediation, and La Banque Centrale Populaire / by Natasha Iskander
- The gender revolution : migrant mothering and social transformations in the Philippines / by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
- Beyond social remittances : migration and transnational gangs in Central America / by Jose Miguel Cruz
- Economic uncertainties, social strains, and HIV risks : effects of male labor migration on rural women in Mozambique / by Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjivar, and Boave Cau.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822397571
- 0822397579
- 9780822353959
- 0822353954
- OCLC:
- 840897776
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