LEADER 03058oam 22005414a 450 001 9910136268603321 005 20221206100316.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000590557 035 $a908250493 035 $a(OCoLC)1104219873 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72995 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000590557 100 $a20150424h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMigrating into Financial Markets$eHow Remittances Became a Development Tool /$fMatt Bakker 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2015]. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) $cPDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9780520285460 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index. 327 $aIntroducing 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $aEconomic development$zMexico 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aEmigrant remittances$zNorth America 606 $aEmigrant remittances$zMexico 606 $aEmigration and immigration$xEconomic aspects 606 $aEmigrant remittances 607 $aMexico$xEmigration and immigration$xEconomic aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomic development 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aEmigrant remittances 615 0$aEmigrant remittances 615 0$aEmigration and immigration$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aEmigrant remittances. 676 $a332/.04246 700 $aBakker$b Matt$f1971-$0935792 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136268603321 996 $aMigrating into financial markets$92108127 997 $aUNINA