Intra-European Return Migration and Rural Development: Lessons from the Spanish Case

Rhoades, Robert E.

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“…In one study of Greek guestworkers, for example, 85 percent of those interviewed who left home without marketable skills failed to acquire them while working in Germany (Bernard and Comitas, 1978); and in another study of Turkish guestworkers, only 10 percent of those interviewed indicated receiving any training abroad (Paine, 1974). Similar findings have also been reported among migrants returning to Algeria, Mexico and Spain (Trebous, 1970;Rhoades, 1978;Reichert, 1979).…”

Section: Benefits To Sending Societies: Recent Evidencesupporting

confidence: 82%

Guestworker programs: Evidence from Europe and the United States and some implications for U.S. policy

Reichert

Massey

1982

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Mounting concern in the United States over increased illegal migration from Mexico during the past decade has generated a heated policy debate and led to a number of proposals as to how the U.S. government should deal with the problem. Among these has been a call for a temporary worker program similar to the U.S. -sponsored Bracero Program (1942-1964 in which over 4million Mexican workers were recruited to perform temporary agricultural labor in the southwestern United States. This article considers the implications of such a program by examining the social and economic effects of previous guestworker programs in the United States and western Europe from the perspective of both sending and receiving societies. Particular attention is paid to the efficacy of these programs in promoting temporary as opposed to long-term immigration of foreign workers as well as their developmental impact on sending countries.

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Section: Benefits To Sending Societies: Recent Evidencesupporting

confidence: 82%

Guestworker programs: Evidence from Europe and the United States and some implications for U.S. policy

Reichert

Massey

1982

Popul Res Policy Rev

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“…Remittances -hardly noticed in the neoclassic model -were acknowledged but they were not seen as a productive input into the development process. Rather, it was alleged, they were 'frittered away' on conspicuous consumption, used to build unnecessarily luxurious housing, or spent on other 'non-productive' outlets such as small shops in migrants' home villages (Lipton 1980;Rhoades 1978). According to Castles and Kosack, in a book which captured the theoretical zeitgeist of the time, 'labour migration is a form of development aid given by the poor countries to the rich ones ' (1973: 8).…”

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confidence: 99%

Migration, Development, Gender and the ‘Black Box’ of Remittances: Comparative Findings from Albania and Ecuador

King

Mata‐Codesal

Vullnetari

2013

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Set within the growing literature on migration and development, this paper has two interlinked objectives. First, it examines remittances, a key element of the migration-development nexus, from a gendered perspective. Second it does so in a comparative empirical perspective, focusing on remittance behaviour in two contrasting settings, albania and ecuador. both countries have experienced mass emigration in recent decades. research is based on household surveys with remittance receivers in selected rural areas of both countries, supplemented by in-depth interviews with both senders and receivers of remittances. by using the concept of 'remittance dyads' -person-to-person transfers of money and gifts -we examine the gendered mechanics of conveying and managing remittances to see if they have the potential to reshape gender relations in these migrant households. they do, but the effects are limited.

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“…The few studies which investigate returnee participation in business have either been conducted in the rural regions of developing countries with high levels of economic diversi®cation (Choi, 1984;Oberai et al, 1999, pp. 42±43), or else they describe the cosmetic contributions of returnee shops, hotels and pubs to a saturated tertiary sector in rural areas of Europe and some developing countries (King, 1985;King et al, 1984;Rhoades, 1978;Ballard, 1987, pp. 28±29).…”

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Return migrant entrepreneurs and economic diversification in two counties in south Jiangxi, China

Murphy

1999

J. Int. Dev.

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Returnee migrants in the counties of Xinfeng and Yudu, south Jiangxi, are contributing to the diversi®cation of the rural economy in their natal communities. This is occurring with the sponsorship of the state which views returnee entrepreneurship as part of the longer-term project of permanently transferring rural labour from villages to towns, and from ®elds to o-farm employment. Returnees have assisted the immediate goal of diversifying the rural economy, and they have lobbied the local state for changes which make the natal environment more conducive to business. However, owing to the backwardness of the natal economies and the short history of return to south Jiangxi, these entrepreneurs are not advancing the longer-term project of permanently transferring rural labour out of agriculture and villages. Moreover, although returnee enterprises are promoting economic diversi®cation, their contribution to livelihood diversi®cation has been limited to creating jobs for other returnees, rather than for the local non-migrant population.

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Intra-European Return Migration and Rural Development: Lessons from the Spanish Case

Cited by 75 publications

References 6 publications

Guestworker programs: Evidence from Europe and the United States and some implications for U.S. policy

Guestworker programs: Evidence from Europe and the United States and some implications for U.S. policy

Migration, Development, Gender and the ‘Black Box’ of Remittances: Comparative Findings from Albania and Ecuador

Return migrant entrepreneurs and economic diversification in two counties in south Jiangxi, China

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