Consequences of Migration and Remittances for Mexican Transnational Communities

Conway, Dennis; Cohen, Jeffrey H.

doi:10.2307/144342

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“…Our study also did not consider the 'multiplier' effects of remittances. As numerous studies show, migrants' remittances may increase expenditures in the local economy and create new employment opportunities for both migrants and non-migrants (Adams 1998;Cohen 1999;Cohen and Rodriguez 2005;Conway and Cohen 1998;Durand 1994;Durand et al 1996b;Jones 1995;Massey and Parrado 1998;Smith 1998;Taylor et al 1996;Woodruff and Zenteno 2007). These indirect effects, if taken into account, might alter our conclusions about how remittances shape the wealth inequality between migrants and non-migrants in the MMP communities.…”

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Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data

Garip

2012

Demography

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To evaluate the distributional impact of remittances in origin communities, prior research studied how migrants' selectivity by wealth varies with migration prevalence in the community or prior migration experience of the individual. This study considers both patterns, and examines selectivity separately in low and high prevalence communities and for first-time and repeat migrants. Based on data from 18,042 household heads in 119 Mexican communities from the Mexican Migration Project, the analyses show that (i) first-time migrants in low prevalence communities come from poor households, while repeat migrants in high prevalence communities belong to wealthy households, and (ii) higher amounts of remittances reach wealthy households.These results suggest that repeat migration and remittances may be mechanisms for wealth accumulation in the study communities. Descriptive analyses associate these mechanisms with increasing wealth disparities between households with and without migrants, especially in high prevalence communities. The study, similar to prior findings, shows the importance of repeat migration trips, which, given sustained remittances, may amplify the wealth gap between migrants and non-migrants in migrant-sending communities. The study also qualifies prior findings by differentiating between low and high prevalence communities and observing a growing wealth gap only in the latter.

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Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data

Garip

2012

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“…Most research on remittances has focused on the implicit contract migrants have with family members in the home community (i.e., Stark and Lucas, 1988;Stark, 1991;Lianos, 1997;Leinbach and Watkins, 1998;Menjivar, et al, 1998) or on income redistribution and community development (i.e., Barhan and Boucher, 1998;Conway and Cohen, 1998;Jones, 1998;Rodriguez, 1998). We argue that, for Salvadorans, remittances serve as a form of return migration in the transnational circulation process.…”

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The Interrupted Circle: Truncated Transnationalism and the Salvadoran Experience

Miyares¹,

Wright²,

Mountz³

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This paper examines the transnational experience of the Salvadoran community in New Jersey and El Salvador. We argue that this experience is "truncated", stunted as much by the tenuous residency status of many Salvadorans as by distance or poverty. We use unstructured and survey-based interviews to illustrate how the Salvadoran transmigrants have responded to separation from their families in El Salvador by struggling to maintain place ties by substituting vicarious return for actual return. We propose that migrant circulation can occur vicariously through gifts, remittances, and telecommunications when a migrant's legal status, in this case Temporary Protected Status, constrains corporeal circulation. We also explore the downsides to this vicarious return, with our particular interest in the children left behind and the longer term viability of remittance-based economies.

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“…Births, marriages, celebrations, divorces, bereavements, and mourning all could be transnational. This extended beyond the social to political and economic realms and added interesting scalar dimensions to "international" migration (Mountz and Wright 1996;Conway and Cohen 1998). This type of research necessitated ethnographic methods and brought the spotlight to bear on issues of culture and identity and community and belonging.…”

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Migration Flows: Measurement, Analysis and Modeling

Willekens

2016

International Handbooks of Population

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Consequences of Migration and Remittances for Mexican Transnational Communities

Cited by 126 publications

References 11 publications

Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data

Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data

The Interrupted Circle: Truncated Transnationalism and the Salvadoran Experience

Migration Flows: Measurement, Analysis and Modeling

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