Migration and Remittances from Mexico
Title | Migration and Remittances from Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Alfredo Cuecuecha |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0739169807 |
Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges, edited by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini, compiles twelve articles on the migration phenomenon from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the United States. The first part of the book provides an overview of three recent surveys, all carried out in Mexico. The surveys consider international migration flows from Mexico to the United States, the characteristics of migrants, and some of the causes and effects of migration in Mexico both for national and rural samples. The next section of the book analyzes the factors that explain the relationship between internal migration and human development. Then, the authors look at different issues of migration from Mexico and Latin American countries to the United States. The topics include female educational selection in migrants from Mexico to the United States, the impact of differences in the U.S.-Mexico labor market outcomes on the migratory flow, the working conditions of Mexican migrants to the United States under H2 visas, and the breadth and depth of migrants' connections from Latin American countries to the United States. The fourth and final section of the book studies a variety of aspects related to remittances from United States to Mexico and Latin American countries, including whether remittances promote growth in Mexico, whether remittances sent to Mexico finance migration of more Mexicans to the United States, and whether remittances have positive impacts in the households that receive them. The contributors to Migration and Remittances from Mexico are specialized migration researchers, trained in a broad variety of fields, including economics, sociology, demography, and political science in both Mexico and the United States. This range of backgrounds provides an essential multidisciplinary perspective from both sides of the border.
Bringing it Back Home
Title | Bringing it Back Home PDF eBook |
Author | Fernando Lozano Ascencio |
Publisher | University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexicanstudies |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Globalization, migration and development : the role of Mexican migrant remittances (Working Paper ITD = Documento de Trabajo ITD ; n. 20)
Title | Globalization, migration and development : the role of Mexican migrant remittances (Working Paper ITD = Documento de Trabajo ITD ; n. 20) PDF eBook |
Author | J. Ernesto López Córdova |
Publisher | BID-INTAL |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Economic development |
ISBN | 9507382410 |
In this paper, we present evidence indicating that international migrant remittances lead to improved developmental outcomes. Using a cross-section of all Mexican municipalities (over 2400) in the year 2000, we show that an increase in the fraction of households receiving international remittances is correlated with better schooling and health indicators and with reductions in poverty, even after controlling for the likely endogeneity between remittances and developmental outcome variables. Our findings have important policy implications as they suggest that national governments and the international community should adopt measures that facilitate remittance flows.
How Do Migration and Remittances Affect Inequality? A Case Study of Mexico
Title | How Do Migration and Remittances Affect Inequality? A Case Study of Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Zsoka Koczan |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 21 |
Release | 2018-06-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1484363434 |
The poverty-reducing effects of remittances have been well-documented, however, their effects on inequality are less clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the receiving side. It hopes to speak to their insurance role by examining how remittances are affected by domestic and external crises: the 1994 Mexican Peso crisis and the Global Financial Crisis. We find that remittances lower inequality, and that they become more pro-poor over time as migration opportunities become more widespread. This also strengthens their insurance effects, mitigating some of the negative impact of shocks on the poorest.
New Perspectives on Remittances from Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States
Title | New Perspectives on Remittances from Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Germán Zárate-Hoyos |
Publisher | kassel university press GmbH |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Emigrant remittances |
ISBN | 389958256X |
The Remittance Landscape
Title | The Remittance Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Lynn Lopez |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2015-01-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022620295X |
Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico—one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With The Remittance Landscape, Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with that money, and in particular how the building boom that it has generated has changed Mexican towns and villages. Lopez not only identifies a clear correspondence between the flow of remittances and the recent building boom in rural Mexico but also proposes that this construction boom itself motivates migration and changes social and cultural life for migrants and their families. At the same time, migrants are changing the landscapes of cities in the United States: for example, Chicago and Los Angeles are home to buildings explicitly created as headquarters for Mexican workers from several Mexican states such as Jalisco, Michoacán, and Zacatecas. Through careful ethnographic and architectural analysis, and fieldwork on both sides of the border, Lopez brings migrant hometowns to life and positions them within the larger debates about immigration.
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016
Title | Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016 PDF eBook |
Author | Dilip Ratha |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 146480320X |
Remittances remain a key source of funds for developing countries, far exceeding official development assistance and even foreign direct investment. Remittances have proved to be more stable than private debt and portfolio equity flows, and less volatile than official aid flows, and their annual flow can match or surpass foreign exchange reserves in many small countries. Even in large emerging markets, such as India, remittances are equivalent to at least a quarter of total foreign exchange reserves. India, China, Philippines and Mexico are the top recipients of migrant remittances. The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016 attempts to present numbers and facts behind the stories of international migration and remittances, drawing on authoritative, publicly available data. It provides a snapshot of statistics on immigration, emigration, skilled emigration, and remittance flows for 210 countries and 15 regional and income groups. The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016 updates the 2011 edition of the Factbook with additional data on bilateral migration and remittances and second generation diasporas, collected from various sources, including national censuses, labor force surveys, population registers, and other national sources.