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Book Migration  Remittances  And Small Business Development

Download or read book Migration Remittances And Small Business Development written by Sergio Diaz-Briquets and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) was a manifestation of widespread public concern over the volume of undocumented immigration into the United States. The principal innovation of this legislation-the provision to impose penalties on employers who knowingly hire undocumented immigrants-was a response to this concern. This effort at restriction was tempered in IRCA by other provisions permitting the legalization of two types of undocumented immigrantsthose who had resided in the United States since January 1, 1982; and what were called special agricultural workers (SAWs), persons who had worked in perishable crop agriculture for at least 90 days during specified periods from 1983 to 1986. Approximately 3.1 million persons sought legalization (what is popularly referred to as amnesty) under these two provisions. The breakdown was roughly 1.8 million under the regular program and 1.3 million as SAWs. Mexicans made up 75 percent of the combined legalization requests."

Book Unauthorized Migration

Download or read book Unauthorized Migration written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working Papers

Download or read book Working Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Worlds in Motion   Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium

Download or read book Worlds in Motion Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium written by Douglas S. Massey and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 20th century nearly all developed nations have become countries of immigration, absorbing growing numbers of immigrants not only from developed regions, byt increasingly from developing nations of the Third World. Although international migration has come to play a central role in the social, economic, and demographic dynamics of both immigrant-sending and immigrant-receiving countries, social scientist have been slow to construct a comprehensive theory to explain it. Efforts at theoretical explanation have been fragmented by disciplinary, geographic, and methodological boudaries. Worlds in Motion seeks to overcome these schisms to create a comprehensive theory of international migration for the next century. After explicating the various propositions and hypotheses of current theories, and identifying area of complementarity and conflict, the authors review empirical research emanting from each of the world's principal international migration systems: North America, Western Europe, the Gulf, Asia and the Pacific, and the Southern Cone of South America. Using data from the 1980s, levels and patterns of migration within each system are described to define their structure and organization. Specific studies are then comprehensively surveyed to evaluate the fundamental propositions of neoclassical economics, the new economics of labour migration, segmented labour market theory, world systems theory, social capital theory, and the theory of cumulative causation. The various theories are also tested by applying them to the relationship between international migration and economic development. Although certain theories seem to function more effectively in certain systems, all contain elements of truth supported by empirical research. The task of the theorist is thus to identify which theories are most effective in accounting for international migration in the world today, and what regional and national circumstances lead to a predominance of one theoretical mechanism over another. The book concludes by offering an empirically-grounded theoretical synthesis to serve as a guide for researchers and policy-makers in the 21st century.

Book Refugee and Humanitarian Admissions

Download or read book Refugee and Humanitarian Admissions written by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Impact of International Labor Migration on Regional Development

Download or read book The Impact of International Labor Migration on Regional Development written by Volker Hamann and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2007 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexican microenterprise investment and employment   the role of remittances  Working Paper ITD   Documento de Trabajo ITD  26

Download or read book Mexican microenterprise investment and employment the role of remittances Working Paper ITD Documento de Trabajo ITD 26 written by Christopher Woodruff and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Globalization in Rural Mexico

Download or read book Globalization in Rural Mexico written by Frances Abrahamer Rothstein and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Society of the Anthropology of Work Book Prize, 2010 When the ever-intensifying global marketplace "modernizes" rural communities, who stands to gain? Can local residents most impacted by changes to their social fabric ever recover or even identify what has been lost? Frances Abrahamer Rothstein uses thirty years of sustained anthropological fieldwork in the rural Mexican community of San Cosme Mazatecochco to showcase globalization's complexities and contradictions. Rothstein's lucid work chronicles the changes in production, consumption, and social relations during three distinct periods: the Mexican "miracle," when economic development fueled mobility for a large segment of the population, including San Cosme's worker-peasants; the lost decade of the 1980s, when much of what had been gained was lost; and the recent period of trade liberalization and globalization, considered by many in Mexico and beyond as a panacea and a disaster at the same time. After Mexico's textile industry decline in the late 1980s, some families of former textile workers in San Cosme opened home workshops—talleres—and a small-scale, textile-based economy took root. These families, who managed to prosper through their own trade and industry, demonstrate that those who rely on consumer demand for their livelihood need not always follow the dictate of the marketplace, but rather can position themselves assertively to influence alternative economic possibilities held close to their culture. Employing rich ethnography and broad analysis, Rothstein focuses on how everyday life has been transformed by these processes, but shows also how important continuities with the past persist. She strikes a delicate balance between firmly grounded scientific study and a deep compassion for the subjects of her work, while challenging contemporary views of globalization and consumption.

Book Race  Gender and Contemporary International Labor Migration Regimes

Download or read book Race Gender and Contemporary International Labor Migration Regimes written by Leticia Saucedo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrant workers around the world are subject to exploitative labor practices that give employers extraordinary bargaining power. This book brings together researchers, practitioners, and advocates who explore the many ways that contracted migrant workers are rendered vulnerable in the workplace. In this book, the term ‘21st-century coolie’ is deployed as a heuristic device that foregrounds the deeply unequal structures shaping the transnational flows of short-term, migrant workers. The term ‘coolie’ harkens back to the labor arrangements of earlier centuries that involved conscripted labor, indentured servitude, and contract labor across national borders. Like those of past centuries, today’s ‘coolies’ are subject to legal constraints inside and outside the employment relationship that force them into subjugated positions within the workplace.

Book Metropolitan Migrants

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rubén Hernández-León
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2008-09-02
  • ISBN : 9780520942462
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Metropolitan Migrants written by Rubén Hernández-León and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon—the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.

Book Class  Gender and Migration

    Book Details:
  • Author : María Eugenia D’Aubeterre Buznego
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-06-07
  • ISBN : 0429844980
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Class Gender and Migration written by María Eugenia D’Aubeterre Buznego and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the global economic crisis of 2007. Based on ethnographic research carried out over a decade, details of the lives of women and men from two rural communities reveal how neoliberal economic restructuring led to the deterioration of livelihoods starting in the 1980s. Similar restructuring processes in the United States opened up opportunities for Mexican workers to labor in US industries that relied heavily on undocumented workers to sustain their profits and grow. When the Great Recession hit, in the context of increasingly restrictive immigration policies, some immigrants were more likely to return to Mexico than others. This longitudinal study demonstrates how the interconnections among class and gender are key to understanding who stayed and who returned to Mexico during and after the global economic crisis. Through these case studies, the authors comment more widely on how neoliberalism has affected the livelihoods and aspirations of the working classes. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in migration studies, gender studies/politics, and more broadly to international relations, anthropology, development studies, and human geography.

Book Mexican Perceptions on Rural Development and Migration of Workers to the United States and Actions Taken  1970 1988

Download or read book Mexican Perceptions on Rural Development and Migration of Workers to the United States and Actions Taken 1970 1988 written by Jesús Tamayo and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Does Migration Reshape Expenditures in Rural Households

Download or read book Does Migration Reshape Expenditures in Rural Households written by J. Edward Taylor and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Migration reshapes rural economies in ways that may go beyond the contribution of migrant remittances to household income. Consumption and investment expenditures by migrant-sending households may transmit some of the impacts of migration to others inside and outside the rural economy, and they also may shape the potential effects of migration within the source household. Numerous studies have attempted to quantify the impact of migrant remittances on expenditures in migrant-sending households following one of two approaches. The first asks how migrant remittances are spent. It has the advantage of being simple but the significant disadvantage of ignoring the fungibility of income from migrant and nonmigrant sources. Remittances almost certainly have indirect effects on expenditures by way of their contribution to households' total budgets.

Book Trade Policy and Export Activity in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Download or read book Trade Policy and Export Activity in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector written by María de Lourdes de la Fuente Deschamps and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Reinterpretation of Labor Services of the Commonwealth Caribbean

Download or read book A Reinterpretation of Labor Services of the Commonwealth Caribbean written by Ralph M. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: