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How immigrants impact their homelands / edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Adil Najam.

Contributor(s): Eckstein, Susan, 1942- | Najam, Adil
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013Description: xvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822353959 (pbk.); 0822353954 (pbk.); 9780822353812 (cloth : alk. paper); 0822353814 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects | Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | Emigration and immigration -- Political aspectsDDC classification: 304.8 LOC classification: JV6217 | .H69 2013Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Homeland impacts of developing country immigrants : an overview of their homeland impacts / Susan Eckstein -- Migration and development : reconciling opposite views / Alejandro Portes -- How overseas Chinese spurred the economic "miracle" in their homeland / Min Ye -- Immigrants' globalization of the Indian economy / Kyle Eischen -- How Cuban Americans are unwittingly transforming their homeland / Susan Eckstein -- Immigrant impacts in Mexico : a tale of dissimilation / David Scott Fitzgerald -- "Turks abroad" redefine Turkish nationalism / Riva Kastoryano -- Moroccan migrants as unlikely captains of industry : remittances, financial intermediation, and La Banque Centrale Populaire / Natasha Iskander -- The gender revolution in the Philippines : migrant mothering and social transformations / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Beyond social remittances : migration and transnational gangs in Central America / José Miguel Cruz -- Economic uncertainties, social strains, and HIV risks : effects of male labor migration on rural women in Mozambique / Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjívar, and Boaventura Cau.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Homeland impacts of developing country immigrants : an overview of their homeland impacts / Susan Eckstein -- Migration and development : reconciling opposite views / Alejandro Portes -- How overseas Chinese spurred the economic "miracle" in their homeland / Min Ye -- Immigrants' globalization of the Indian economy / Kyle Eischen -- How Cuban Americans are unwittingly transforming their homeland / Susan Eckstein -- Immigrant impacts in Mexico : a tale of dissimilation / David Scott Fitzgerald -- "Turks abroad" redefine Turkish nationalism / Riva Kastoryano -- Moroccan migrants as unlikely captains of industry : remittances, financial intermediation, and La Banque Centrale Populaire / Natasha Iskander -- The gender revolution in the Philippines : migrant mothering and social transformations / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Beyond social remittances : migration and transnational gangs in Central America / José Miguel Cruz -- Economic uncertainties, social strains, and HIV risks : effects of male labor migration on rural women in Mozambique / Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjívar, and Boaventura Cau.

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