The state and the grassroots : immigrant transnational organizations in four continents / edited by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernández-Kelly.

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9781782387350
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369/.3 23

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JV6225 .S73 2015eb

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Immigration, transnationalism, and development : the state of the question / Alejandro Portes -- Traversing ancestral and new homelands : Chinese immigrant-transnational organizations in the United States / Min Zhou and Rennie Lee -- Transnational philanthropy of urban migrants : Colombian and Dominican -- Immigrant organizations and development / Cristina Escobar -- Tapping the Indian diaspora for Indian development / Rina Agarwala -- Partners in organizing : engagement between migrants and the state in the production of Mexican hometown associations / Natasha Iskander -- Navigating uneven development : the dynamics of fractured transnationalism / Margarita Rodríguez -- Breaking blocked transnationalism : intergenerational change in homeland ties / Jennifer Huynh and Jessica Yiu -- Moroccan and Congolese migrant organizations in Belgium / Marie Godin, Barbara Herman, Andrea Rea, and Rebecca Thys -- Moroccans in France : their organizations and activities back home / Thomas Lacroix and Antoine Dumont -- Transnational activities of immigrants in the netherlands : do Ghanaian, Moroccan, and Surinamese diaspora organizations enhance development? / Gery Nijenhuis and Annelies Zoomers -- Transnational immigrant organizations in Spain : their role in development and integration / Héctor Cebolla Boado and Ana López-Sala -- Conclusion. assimilation through transnationalism : a theoretical synthesis / Patricia Fernández-Kelly.

Summary: Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain focus their studies on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives. The book outlines the principal positions in the migration and develop.

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Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain focus their studies on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives. The book outlines the principal positions in the migration and develop.

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