Sending money home : Hispanic remittances and community development / edited by Rodolfo O. de la Garza with Briant Lindsay Lowell. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2002. - viii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New phase in the story of remittances / Binational impact of Latino remittances / Migrant remittances to Latin America : reviewing the literature / Briant Lindsay Lowell and Rodolfo O. de la Garza -- Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Manuel Orozco -- Deborah Waller Meyers. Latino hometown associations as agents of development in Latin America / Development of the hometown associations in the United States and the use of social remittances in Mexico / Remittances and markets : new players and practices / Sending money home ... for now : remittances and immigrant adaptation in the United States / Do government programs "crowd in" remittances? / Manuel Orozco -- Rafael Alarcâon -- Manuel Orozco -- Louis DeSipio -- J. Edward Taylor.

0742518868 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780742518865 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Emigrant remittances--Latin America.
Remesas de emigrantes --América Latina

HG 3915.5 / S474 2002

332/.042