Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 256
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-1886-5 • Paperback • January 2002 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Rodolfo O. de la Garza is vice president of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute and professor of political science at Columbia University. Briant Lindsay Lowell is director of research at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.
Part 1 I The Developmental Role of Remittances in U. S. Latino Communities and Latin American Countries
Chapter 2 I A New Phase in the Story of Remittances
Chapter 3 II Binational Impact of Latino Remittances
Chapter 4 III Migrant Remittances to Latin America: Reviewing the Literature
Part 5 II The Role of Hometown Associations
Chapter 6 IV Latino Hometown Associations as Agents of Development
Chapter 7 V Hometown Associations and Remittances in Mexico
Chapter 8 VI Remittances and Markets
Part 9 III The Economics of Sending Remittances
Chapter 10 VII Sending Money Home...for Now
Chapter 11 VIII Do Government Programs "Crowd In" Remittances?
Part 12 IV Opportunities and Constraints on the Future of Remittance Flows
Chapter 13 IX Conclusion