Remittances and Inequality: A Question of Migration Stage and Geographic Scale

Jones, Richard C.

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“…Remittances from internal migrants, although smaller in magnitude, also comprise a vital component of rural livelihoods in many developing countries (Reardon 1997;Rempel and Lobdell 1978). Research shows that remittances relax budget or credit constraints in origin households (Lauby and Stark 1988;Lucas and Stark 1985;Stark and Levhari 1982;Taylor 1999) and provide opportunities for income redistribution and poverty reduction in origin communities or countries (Durand et al 1996a;Durand, Parrado and Massey 1996b;Jones 1998;Rapoport and Docquier 2006;Russell 1986;Taylor et al 1996). To anticipate the macro-level consequences of these flows, we first need to understand the micro-level motives shaping individuals' remittance behavior.…”

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An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

Garip

2012

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Prior work has modeled individuals' migration and remittance behavior separately, and reported mixed empirical support for various remittance motivations. This study offers an integrated approach, and considers migration as a mechanism for selection in a censored probit model of remittance behavior. This approach leads to different conclusions about the determinants of remittance behavior in the Thai internal migration setting. To the extent that these determinants capture different remittance motivations, as prior research has presumed, the analysis also provides varying support for these motivations. These results suggest that migration and remittance behavior are interrelated, and it is crucial for an analysis of remittance behavior to control for the selectivity of migration.

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An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

Garip

2012

Popul Res Policy Rev

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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,

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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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“…Although investments in infrastructure projects and entrepreneurial activities are often privileged by states and development practitioners, scholars have shown that most remittances are actually directed towards individual household consumption [3] and have important multiplier effects on the broader economy [4]. There is also increasing recognition that local governments and migrant organizations are crucial to development outcomes [5,6].…”

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“…Scholars have often argued that remittances result in greater inequalities over time as migrant families benefit more than non-migrants [3]. In Arbieto, the differences between families with and without migrants are seen in material terms and in new social classifications.…”

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Circulating Practices: Migration and Translocal Development in Washington D.C. and Cochabamba, Bolivia

Strunk¹

2013

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Migrant remittances are increasingly seen as a potential form of development in the global South, but the impact of international migration on sending regions is far from straightforward. In this article, I analyze migrant communities of origin in rural Bolivia as dynamic places that are constantly reproduced through connections with other places. I document the movement of migrant practices between Washington D.C. and Cochabamba and the influence of monetary and non-monetary flows on Bolivian cultural practices, politics, and development. I demonstrate how hometown associations and returning migrants have transferred organizational practices and political ideas about development from the United States to rural Bolivia. In addition, I explore migration's role in struggles over belonging in Cochabamba, focusing on the efforts by migrants in Washington D.C. to stake their claim through transnational houses and collective remittance projects and on recent internal migration from other regions in Bolivia. Finally, I assess the sustainability of migrant-led development in Cochabamba. Although collaboration with migrants can strengthen the local state by providing more resources, it conditions the type of development that can take place and has yet to provide adequate opportunities for returning migrants or young people in rural Bolivia.

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Remittances and Inequality: A Question of Migration Stage and Geographic Scale

Cited by 94 publications

References 14 publications

An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

The Interrupted Circle: Truncated Transnationalism and the Salvadoran Experience

Circulating Practices: Migration and Translocal Development in Washington D.C. and Cochabamba, Bolivia

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