Eckstein / Najam How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9757-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 277 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

This collection examines the economic, social, and cultural effects that immigrants have had on their home countries, including China, Cuba, India, Mexico, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Turkey.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eckstein, Susan Eva

Najam, Adil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures viii

Preface xi

1. Immigrants from Developing Countries: An Overview of Their Homeland Impacts / Susan Eckstein 1

2. Migration and Development: Reconciling Opposite Views / Alejandro Portes 30

3. How Overseas Chinese Spurred the Economic "Miracle" in Their Homeland / Min Ye 52

4. Immigrants' Globalization of the Indian Economy / Kyle Eischen 75

5. How Cuban Americans Are Unwittingly Transforming Their Homeland / Susan Eckstein 92

6. Immigrant Impacts in Mexico: A Tale of Dissimilation / David Scott Fitzgerald 114

7. "Turks Abroad" Redefine Turkish Nationalism / Riva Kastoryano 138

8. Moroccan Migrants as Unlikely Captains of Industry: Remittances, Financial Intermediation, and La Banque Centrale Populaire / Natasha Iskander 156

9. The Gender Revolution in the Philippines: Migrant Mothering and Social Transformations / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas 191

10. Beyond Social Remittances: Migration and Transnational Gangs in Central America / José Miguel Cruz 213

11. Economic Uncertainties, Social Strains, and HIV Risks: The Effects of Male Labor Migration on Rural Women in Mozambique / Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjívar, and Boaventura Cau 234

Contributors 253

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Eva Eckstein is Professor of Sociology and International Relations at Boston University. Her many books include The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. and Their Homeland, as well as What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America and Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America (both coedited with Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley). Adil Najam is Vice Chancellor at Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, and Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University. He is the author of Portrait of a Giving Community: Philanthropy by the Pakistani-American Diaspora, coauthor of Global Environmental Governance: A Reform Agenda, and editor of Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia.Adil Najam is Vice Chancellor at Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan and Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University. He is the author of Portrait of a Giving Community: Philanthropy by the Pakistani-American Diaspora; co-author of Global Environmental Governance: A Reform Agenda, and editor of Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia.