03058oam 22005414a 450 991013626860332120221206100316.0(CKB)3710000000590557908250493(OCoLC)1104219873(MdBmJHUP)muse72995(EXLCZ)99371000000059055720150424h20152015 uy 0engurm|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMigrating into Financial MarketsHow Remittances Became a Development Tool /Matt BakkerOakland, California :University of California Press,[2015].©20151 online resource (vii, 283 pages) PDF, digital file(s)Print version: 9780520285460 Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.Introducing the remittances-to-development agenda -- Facts, figures, and the politics of measurement : the construction and diffusion of remittances as a financial flow -- Forging the remittances-to-development nexus : conceptual linkages and political practices -- Bringing remittances into the North American economic integration project : a genealogy of Mexican state-led transnationalism -- From promise to practice : towards financial democracy in North America."We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances--the resources of some of the world's least affluent people--have come to be seen in recent years as a fundamental contributor to development in the migrant-sending states of the global South. This book analyzes how the connection between remittances and development was forged through the concrete political and intellectual practices of policy entrepreneurs within a variety of institutional settings, from national government agencies and international development organizations to nongovernmental policy foundations and think tanks"--Provided by publisher.Economic developmentMexicoEconomic developmentEmigrant remittancesNorth AmericaEmigrant remittancesMexicoEmigration and immigrationEconomic aspectsEmigrant remittancesMexicoEmigration and immigrationEconomic aspectsElectronic books. Economic developmentEconomic development.Emigrant remittancesEmigrant remittancesEmigration and immigrationEconomic aspects.Emigrant remittances.332/.04246Bakker Matt1971-935792MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910136268603321Migrating into financial markets2108127UNINA