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Migration and development: Resources

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Remittances and development


Migrant Remittances and (Under)Development in Mexico
Leigh Binford
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230983_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Remesas e inversión productiva en comunidades de alta migración a Estados Unidos. El caso de Teocaltiche, Jalisco
Alejandro I. Canales, Israel Montiel Armas
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183169_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Remittances and Development: The Case of Mexico
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230984_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Enhancing the Developmental Effect of Workers’ Remittances to Developing Countries
Haleh Bridi
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230986_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Mexican Hometown Associations and Their Development Opportunities
Manuel Orozco, with Michelle Lapointe
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Migrant Hometown Associations and Opportunities for Development: A Global Perspective
Manuel Orozco and Rebecca Rouse
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230988_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America?
PABLO ACOSTA, CESAR CALDERO´ N, PABLO FAJNZYLBER and HUMBERTO LOPEZ
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230989_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Remittances and Their Economic Impact in Post-war Somaliland
Ismail I. Ahmed
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Circuitos financieros y laborales transfronterizos
Alicia Girón
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230991_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

International Remittances and Income Inequality: An Empirical Investigation
VALERIE KOECHLIN & GIANMARCO LEON
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230992_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

El efecto de las remesas internacionales en la distribución del ingreso en una comunidad zapoteca de reciente migración internacional
Renato Salas Alfaro
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230994_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

FOREIGN LABOR MIGRATION AND THE REMI TTANCE ECONOMY OF NEPAL
David Seddon, with Jagannath Adhikari and Ganesh Gurung
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230995_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

The Shadow Value of Migrant Remittances, Income and Inequality in a Household-farm Economy
J. Edward Taylor and T.J. Wyatt
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230996_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Migration, development and inequality: Eastern Punjabi transnationalism
STEVE TAYLOR, MANJIT SINGH AND DEBORAH BOOTH
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230997_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Migrant Remittances, Labor Markets, and Household Strategies: A Comparative Analysis of Low-Income Household Strategies in the Caribbean Basin
Jose Itzigsohn
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183182_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Remittances in Ghana: Origin, Destination and Issues of Measurement
Valentina Mazzucato, Bart van den Boom, N.N.N. Nsowah-Nuamah
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183186_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Una aproximacion cualitativa a las remesas de los inmigrantes peruanos y ecuatorianos en Espaha y a su impacto en los hogares transnacionaies (A qualitative approach to the money sent home by peruvian and Ecuadorian immigrants living in Spain and its impact on transnational households)
Sonia Parella, Leonardo Cavalcanti
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183188_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

REMESAS, MICROFINANZAS Y LA INFORMATICA COMUNITARIA—CUESTIONES DE GESTIÓN Y DESARROLLO
Scott S. Robinson
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230998_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

After calculating opportunity costs, the remittance development fund – SSRC Memo 3
Scott S. Robinson
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=230999_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Migration Patterns and Remittance Transfer in Nepal: A Case Study of Sainik Basti in Western Nepal
Susan Thieme and Simone Wyss
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183194_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Impact on communities of origin


The Influence of Migration on Origin Communities: Insights from Polish Migrations to the West
Tim Elrick
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183174_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Children and Power in Mexican Transnational Families
Joanna Dreby
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Migration and Inter-Household Inequality: Observations from Wanzai County, Jiangxi
Rachel Murphy
http://www.jstor.org/stable/655922?seq=1

Diminished or Revitalized Tradition of Return? Transnational Migration in Bolivia’s Valle Alto
Richard Jones, Leonardo de la Torre
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183183_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Shifting Orientations: How U.S. Labor Migration Affects Children’s Aspirations in Mexican Migrant Communities
William Kandel and Grace Kao
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183185_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Men’s Migration and Women’s Lives: Views from Rural Armenia and Guatemala
Cecilia Menjivar and Victor Adadjanian
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183187_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Social, Economic and Demographic Consequences of Migration on Kerala
K.C. Zachariah, E.T. Mathew, and S. Irudaya Rajan
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183198_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Migrants in destination countries


Immigration Policy and Employment Conditions of US Immigrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic
Katharine M. Donato, Michael Aguilera, and Chizuko Wakabayashi
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183172_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

IMMIGRATION AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: MOVING BEYOND ECONOMIC NEED VERSUS ACCULTURATION
JENNIFER VAN HOOK AND JENNIFER E. GLICK
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183175_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Occupational Destinations and Economic Mobility of Filipino Overseas Workers
Moshe Semyonov; Anastasia Gorodzeisky
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183192_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Health


Paternal absence and international migration: stressors and compensators associated
With the mental health of Mexican teenagers of rural origin
Rosa Maria Aguilera-Guzman, V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder,
Martha Romero, and Maria Elena Medina-Mora
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183165_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

The Effect of Migration to the United States on Substance Use Disorders Among Returned Mexican Migrants and Families of Migrants
I Guilherme Borges, DSc, Maria Elena Medina-Mora, PhD, Joshua Bresiau, PhD, DSc, and Sergio Aguilar-Gaxioia, MD
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183168_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Migration, ageing and mental health: an ethnographic study on perceptions of life satisfaction, anxiety and depression in older Somali men in east London
Ellen Silveira, Peter Allebeck
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183193_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Gender


Migration and the transformation of gender roles and hierarchies in Yucatan.
Sandra Weinstein Bever
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183166_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Gender and Migration in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca
Jeffrey H. Cohen, Leila Rodriguez, Margaret Fox
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Migration and Gender among Mexican Women
Emilio A. Parrado Chenoa A. Flippen
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183189_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Jefaturas de hogar: El desafio femenino ante la migracion transnacional masculina en el sur del Estado de Mexico
Mariela Loza Torres, Ivonne Vizcarra Bordi, Bruno Lutz Bachere, Eduardo Quintanar Cuadarrama
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183196_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Other


Determining the Causes and Durability of Transnational Labour Migration between Mexico and the United States: Some Empirical Findings
Ludger Pries
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183190_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Immigrant Trip Duration: The Case of Immigrants from Western Mexico
Belinda I. Reyes
https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183191_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

Migration and Income Diversification: Evidence from Burkina Faso
FLEUR WOUTERSE

https://rowdyspace.utsa.edu/xythoswfs/webview/sharelogin.action?sharedFileID=183197_1&ticketID=t_YTBZJGlS

A Country on the Move: International Migration in Post-Communist Albania
Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis, Marco Stampini, Alberto Zezza
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