Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Portes Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Portes Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: Migration and Development: A Conceptual Review of the Evidence Creation-Date: 2006-06 File-URL: http://meme.phpwebhosting.com/~migracion/rimd/bellagio/2.pdf Number: 23 Classification-JEL: O15 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0607.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Portes Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Portes Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Patricia Fernandez-Kelly Author-X-Name-First: Patricia Author-X-Name-Last: Fernandez-Kelly Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: No Margin for Error: Educational and Occupational Achievement among Disadvantaged Children of Immigrants Abstract: Immigration since the 1960s has transformed the nation. Today, close to one-fourth of the American population is of immigrant stock - immigrants themselves or children of immigrants. The same rough proportion holds among young Americans, aged 18 or younger. Children of immigrants and immigrant children exceed 30 million today and are, by far, the fastest growing component of this population. Hence, their destiny as they reach adulthood and seek to integrate socially and economically into the mainstream is more than of academic interest. Creation-Date: 2006-11 File-URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1003.3735&rep=rep1&type=pdf Number: 330 Classification-JEL: F22, I24 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0703.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Donald W. Light Author-X-Name-First: Donald Author-X-Name-Last: Light Author-Workplace-Name: Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Title: Toward an Economic Sociology of Compassionate Charity and Care Abstract: Economics and economic sociology are based on an action model of self-interest and exchange, even though tempered by structural and cultural kinds of embeddedness. People are said to always expend their valued scarce resources - time, skill, energy, money, and other resources - to gain income, wealth, or other rewards such as pleasure or prestige which they regard as worth as much as or more than what they expend. Yet there is clear evidence that people employ or give away their scarce resources for other reasons. Motives like moral convictions; compassion; love; a sense of duty such as a duty towards a sick, disabled, or needy relative or other with whom one feels founded solidarity; and principles or beliefs that transcend self-interest and even call for self-sacrifice prompt or contribute to substantial portions of economic and political action that are missing from theories of economic action and from economic sociology. Yet they are morally and culturally important, and they may underlie large societal shifts that shape economic behavior, like the rise of the movements to Make Poverty History and eliminate absolute poverty. REF At a personal level, millions of people give away scarce time and valued resources they worked to earn rather than keep them for themselves and their pleasures. Creation-Date: 2007-02 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp0702.pdf Number: 331 Classification-JEL: D64 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0702.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Estrella Gualda Author-X-Name-First: Estrella Author-X-Name-Last: Gualda Author-Workplace-Name: University of Huelva Title: Researching Second Generation in a Transitional, European, and Agricultural Context of Reception of Immigrants Abstract: Previous research focusing on the study of immigrant offspring has shown inconclusive results and uncovered different ways of their incorporation into society. This contrasts with the unilateral model suggested by the more radical notions of "linear assimilation", for instance, the possibility of an "upward" as well as a "downward assimilation", giving rise to the segmented assimilation thesis (Portes and Zhou, 1993; Portes and Rumbaut, 2006). Some experts have given empirical evidence to support this view, but other researchers have pointed out that the model of "segmented assimilation" is not so productive in other cases or they have defended that it presents a pessimistic point of view on assimilation processes (see i.e. Alba and Nee, 2003). The majority of these debates have been focused on empirical data obtained in "old countries of immigration". Since knowledge of second generation immigrant activity is of such importance to social, political and applied sciences in general the objective of this paper is to present a review of some of the theoretical and methodological problems encountered in the research of second generation immigrants in Spain and particularly in Andalusia and one its provinces, Huelva. It is hoped to contribute to the debate on the feasibility of researching this generation in "transitional contexts of immigration", but also under the eye of the particularities regarding local contexts impregnated in a strong historical tradition of employing immigrants (at first national, later international migrants) according to the agricultural calendar. Primary data taken in Huelva and Andalusia (Spain), in a preliminary exploration, expose the similarities, differences and difficulties in researching second generations in transitional contexts. The first results, though preliminary, seems to give support to the thesis of segmented assimilation. Creation-Date: 2007-02 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp0701.pdf Number: 332 Classification-JEL: F22 Keywords: Second generation; children of immigrants; segmented assimilation; transitional countries of immigration; Huelva, Spain Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0701.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Portes Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Portes Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Steven Shafer Author-X-Name-First: Steven Author-X-Name-Last: Shafer Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: Revisiting the Enclave Hypothesis: Miami Twenty-Five Years Later Abstract: We review the empirical literature on ethnic economic enclaves after the concept was formulated twenty-five years ago. The balance of this literature is mixed, but many studies reporting negative conclusions were marred by faulty measurement of the concept. We discuss the original theoretical definition of enclaves, the hypotheses derived from it, and the difficulties in operationalizing them. For evidence, we turn to census data on the location and the immigrant group that gave rise to the concept in the first place - Cubans in Miami. We examine the economic performance of this group, relative to others in this metropolitan area, and in the context of historical changes in its own mode of incorporation. Taking these changes into account, we find that the ethnic enclave had a significant economic payoff for its founders - the earlier waves of Cuban exiles - and for their children, but not for refugees who arrived in the 1980 Mariel exodus and after. Reasons for this disjuncture are examined. Implications of these results for enclave theory and for immigrant entrepreneurship in general are discussed. Creation-Date: 2006-05 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp0610.pdf Number: 333 Classification-JEL: F22, R23 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0610.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Donald W. Light Author-X-Name-First: Donald Author-X-Name-Last: Light Author-Workplace-Name: Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Title: GLOBALIZING RESTRICTED AND SEGMENTED MARKETS: Challenges to Theory and Values in Economic Sociology Abstract: The efforts by the world's most powerful corporations to develop global markets have spawned a substantial sociological and economic literature on how transnational markets form, what stages characterize market development, and what rules of exchange are most effective. As the authors of a prominent article put it, - the central question is "what kinds of rules and structures promote market activity and what kinds stifle it"(Fligstein and Stone Sweet 2002:1212). Such a goal assumes market activity to be a per se good, part of the grand globalization blueprint for a better society. But as Robert Merton emphasized throughout his writings, such grand purposive actions may have unintended consequences and serve latent functions or dysfunctions. Alejandro Portes (2000), in his extension of Merton's analytic framework, adds four other possibilities pertinent to good research on globalization: concealed goals to achieve covert ends, emergent means and altered outcomes, backfire or results contrary to those intended, and unexpected changes that facilitate outcomes or frustrate them. Creation-Date: 2006-06 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp0606.pdf Number: 334 Classification-JEL: F60, F68, F69 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0606.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Patricia Fernandez-Kelly Author-X-Name-First: Patricia Author-X-Name-Last: Fernandez-Kelly Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: The Global Assembly Line in the New Millennium Abstract: More than 20 years ago, as part of my dissertation research, I sat behind a sewing machine at a Mexican maquiladora in Ciudad Juarez. That border city was the cradle of outsourcing in the region for American companies aiming to reduce production costs and improve their competitive edge in the world market. For approximately two months I sewed biases around the cuff openings of men's shirts for such well known American companies as Billy the Kid, Devon, and Sears Roebuck. My wage was nine times smaller than the minimum wage of $1.90 paid to workers in the neighboring city of El Paso, Texas, one of the most depressed in the United States, but still more expensive from the point of view of employers than its Mexican counterpart, just 15 minutes across the international line. The year was 1978 and Ciudad Juarez was experiencing a boom resulting from a new trend in globalization. Women were becoming the new face of the international proletariat. Creation-Date: 2006-06 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp0605.pdf Number: 335 Classification-JEL: J22, L23, L24 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0605.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Cesar A. Rodriguez Garavito Author-X-Name-First: Cesar Author-X-Name-Last: Rodriguez Garavito Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad de Los Andes Title: De Club de Caballeros a Foro Electronico de Negociacion: Un Analisis Institucionalista Denso de la Bolsa de Valores de Colombia Creation-Date: 2006-08 File-URL: https://www.dejusticia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/fi_name_recurso_98.pdf Number: 347 Classification-JEL: G11 Keywords: Colombia; stock exchanges Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0608f.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Portes Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Portes Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Cristina Escobar Author-X-Name-First: Cristina Author-X-Name-Last: Escobar Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Alexandria Radford Author-X-Name-First: Alexandria Author-X-Name-Last: Radford Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative Study Abstract: www.conexioncolombia.com is the webpage for a public/private partnership in the Republic of Colombia which aims at diffusing information about the country among its immigrants all over the world and at channeling their contributions to established charities and philanthropic initiatives throughout the nation. "With a simple click," says Conexion Colombia's attractive brochure, "any person in the world can donate and contribute to the country's development. Connect yourself now!" According to the young, dynamic executive director of the organization, Diana Sanchez-Rey, its webpage is visited by thousands of Colombians all over the world every day, looking for news and stories about their country and leaving their own statement. Creation-Date: 2005-08 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp0507.pdf Number: 355 Classification-JEL: O15, F22 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0507.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Douglas S. Massey Author-X-Name-First: Douglas Author-X-Name-Last: Massey Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Magaly Sanchez R. Author-X-Name-First: Magaly Author-X-Name-Last: Sanchez R. Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: Latino and American Identities as Perceived by Immigrants Abstract: Much has been written by social scientists about ethnic identity. From a theoretical point of view, Castells (1997) has argued that changes in the social structure stemming from economic globalization has reinforced the power of local identities among some classes of people even as these changes have created new composite global identities among others. Other scholars have argued that the resurgence of international migration in the context of a globalization will create a new set of transnational identities that span two or more cultural settings (Glick-Schiller, Basch, and Blanc- Szanton 1992,), thus weakening the monopoly of the nation state on cultural maintenance and identity formation (Basch, Glick-Schiller, and Blanc-Szanton 1994; Sassen 1996). Others argue that the consolidation of transnational solidarities influences states from the outside. Even as transnational networks contribute to the formation of spatially dispersed communities, they also appear to be indispensable for negotiating with nation states (Kastoriano 2002). Whereas some celebrate this new hybridization of identities and cultures (Ong 1999 ), others find it threatening and alarming (Huntington 2004). Creation-Date: 2005-01 File-URL: http://blog.glorialopez.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Latino-identity-Princeton.pdf Number: 367 Classification-JEL: F22 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0502j.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Nancy E. Reichman Author-X-Name-First: Nancy Author-X-Name-Last: Reichman Author-Workplace-Name: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Author-Name: Hope Corman Author-X-Name-First: Hope Author-X-Name-Last: Corman Author-Workplace-Name: Rider University and NBER Author-Name: Kelly Noonan Author-X-Name-First: Kelly Author-X-Name-Last: Noonan Author-Workplace-Name: Rider University and NBER Author-Name: Dhaval Dave Author-X-Name-First: Dhaval Author-X-Name-Last: Dave Author-Workplace-Name: Bentley College and NBER Title: Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs: Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions Abstract: We use survey data, augmented with data collected from respondents? medical records, to explore selection into prenatal inputs among a group of urban, mostly unmarried mothers. We explore the extent to which several theoretically important but typically unobserved variables (representing wantedness, taste for risky behavior, and maternal health endowment) are likely to bias the estimated effects of prenatal inputs (illicit drug use, cigarette smoking, and prenatal care) on infant health outcomes (birth weight, low birth weight, and abnormal conditions). We also explore the consequences of including other non-standard covariates and of using selfreported inputs versus measures of inputs that incorporate information from medical records. We find that although the typically unobserved variables have strong associations with both inputs and outcomes with high explanatory power, excluding them from infant health production functions does not substantially bias the estimated effects of prenatal inputs. The bias from using self-reported measures of the inputs is much more substantial. The results suggest promising new directions for research on the production of infant health. Creation-Date: 2006-01 File-URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.532.2006&rep=rep1&type=pdf Number: 930 Classification-JEL: I10 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:WP06-05.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Portes Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Portes Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Lori D. Smith Author-X-Name-First: Lori Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: Institutions and Development in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis Abstract: We review the theoretical literature on the concept of institutions and its relationship to national development, propose a definition of the concept, and advance six hypotheses about institutional adequacy and contributions to national development. We then present results of a comparative empirical study of existing institutions in three Latin American countries and examine their organizational similarities and differences. Employing the qualitative comparative method (QCA) proposed by Ragin, we then test the six hypotheses. Results converge in showing the importance of meritocracy, immunity to corruption, absence of islands of power, and proactivity in producing effective institutions. Findings strongly support Evans' theory of developmental apparatuses. Creation-Date: 2007-12 File-URL: https://conexaosociologiaeconomica.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/institutions-and-national-development-in-latin-america1.pdf Number: 1029 Classification-JEL: O15, R22, F22 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0801.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Portes Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Portes Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: Migration and Social Change: Some Conceptual Reflections Abstract: Examining the multiple ways in which migration relates to social change is a daunting task. It requires, first of all, defining what social change is and, secondarily, delimiting the scope of analysis to certain types of migration and not others. The greatest dangers that I envision in this enterprise are, first, getting lost in generalities of the "social change is ubiquitous" kind and, second, attempting to cover so much terrain as to lose sight of analytic priorities and of major, as opposed to secondary, causal linkages. I seek to avoid these dangers by discussing first the concept of social change, second identifying the types of migration to be considered, and third examining the major factors that link one to another. I conclude the paper with four theoretical and methodological considerations suggested by the analysis that may guide future work in this field. Creation-Date: 2008-08 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp0804.pdf Number: 1096 Classification-JEL: R22, F22 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0804.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Donald Light Author-X-Name-First: Donald Author-X-Name-Last: Light Author-Workplace-Name: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Title: Institutional Ambivalence and Permanently Failing Health Care: Access by Immigrants and the Categorically Unequal in the Nation and New Jersey Abstract: Immigrants seeking health care, especially those without some kind of public or private insurance, highlight the barriers to access that arose as intended or unintended barriers of how dominant stakeholders shaped American medicine. This paper draws on a new study of those consequences for immigrants and focuses on efforts by one state to increase access. Such efforts are framed and constrained by past institutional developments and the layered actions of federal, state, and sometimes county or city actions. We develop a conceptual framework based on Merton & Barber, Meyer & Zucker, Tilly, and Massey that is useful for analyzing health care and other human service programs. Categorical inequalities underlie institutional ambivalence in many programs and policies, and in efforts to reduce or increase them. These inequalities and ambivalence contribute to American health care and health insurance being permanently failing systems driven by provider and insurer moral hazard that never collapse but run inefficiently, ineffectively, and inequitably. Creation-Date: 2009-04 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp0901.pdf Number: 1143 Classification-JEL: D630, F220, H510, I180, J610 Keywords: Healthcare, immigrants, immigration, health insurance, health policy Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0901.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Grimson Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Grimson Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Nacional de San Martin Title: La aviacion civil en la Argentina Creation-Date: 2008-09 File-URL: http://studylib.es/doc/7963583/la-aviacion-civil-en-la-argentina Number: 1146 Classification-JEL: L93 Keywords: Argentina; aviation Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0805b.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Noemi Lujan Ponce Author-X-Name-First: Noemi Author-X-Name-Last: Lujan Ponce Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Autonomo Metropolitana Title: El tiempo se acabó: El Servicio Postal Mexicano en la encrucijada de su modernización Creation-Date: 2008-09 File-URL: http://studylib.es/doc/7120604/el-servicio-postal-mexicano-en-la-encrucijada-de-su-moder... Number: 1154 Classification-JEL: L87 Keywords: Mexico; postal service Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0805j.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas W. Methvin Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Methvin Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: The New Mexican - Americans: International Retirement Migration and Development in an Expatriate Community in Mexico Abstract: If you did a Google search right now on the subject of U.S.- Mexico immigration, you would probably find thousands of resources, documents, and web-pages all dealing with what is often referred to as the immigration problem. The question is generally consistent across many fronts: how to deal with the millions of undocumented Mexican immigrants from Mexico who are seeking a better life in the U.S.? While this kind of immigration between the U.S. and Mexico certainly is important, it is not the only kind of migration between the two countries. While much of what may be deemed dominant migration theory details the migration experiences primarily of so-called labor migrants and South-North migrations between areas of lesser development to more developed regions, important exceptions exist and are notably understudied. Creation-Date: 2009-05 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp0903.pdf Number: 1176 Classification-JEL: D19, J26, H55, J11, J14, F22 Keywords: Immigration, Mexico, Retirement, Illegal immigration, migration theory Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp0903.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Isabel Marin Sanchez Author-X-Name-First: Isabel Author-X-Name-Last: Marin Sanchez Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad de Granada Title: Revealing development in migrant regions: Contributions to the debate about migration and development from Morocco and Mexico Creation-Date: 2011-01 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/ArticuloIsabelMarin2010.pdf Number: 1340 Classification-JEL: O15, F22 Keywords: Morocco, Mexico Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:ArticuloIsabelMarin2010.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Portes Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Portes Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Erik Vickstrom Author-X-Name-First: Erik Author-X-Name-Last: Vickstrom Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: William Haller Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Haller Author-Workplace-Name: Clemson University Author-Name: Rosa Aparicio Author-X-Name-First: Rosa Author-X-Name-Last: Aparicio Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Iniversitario Ortega y Gasselt Title: Dreaming in Spain: Parental Determinants of Immigrant Children's Ambition Abstract: We examine determinants of educational and occupational aspirations and expectations among children of immigrants in Spain on the basis of a unique data set that includes statistically representative data for foreign-origin secondary students in Madrid and Barcelona plus a sample of one-fourth of their parents. Independently collected data for both generations allow us to establish effects of parental characteristics on childrens orientations without the confounding potential inherent on childrens reports about parents. We analyze first determinants of parental ambition and, through a series of step-wise regressions, the effects of these goals and other parental and family characteristics on childrens aspirations and expectations. A structural equations model synthesizes results of the analysis. The model confirms some predictions from the existing research literature, but rejects others. Parental goals, knowledge of Spanish, sex and childrens age relative to class year as shown to be the major determinants of childrens level of ambition. Implications for theory and policy are discussed. Creation-Date: 2011-06 File-URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066875/ Number: 1342 Classification-JEL: D100, I390, J120, J130, I210 Keywords: aspirations, expectations, children of immigrants, adaptation, Spain Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp1102b-Dreaming-in-Spain-revised.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Portes Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Portes Author-Workplace-Name: University of Miami & Princeton University Author-Name: Adrienne Celaya Author-X-Name-First: Adrienne Author-X-Name-Last: Celaya Author-Workplace-Name: University of Miami Author-Name: Erik Vickstrom Author-X-Name-First: Erik Author-X-Name-Last: Vickstrom Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Rosa Aparicio Author-X-Name-First: Rosa Author-X-Name-Last: Aparicio Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gassett Title: Who Are We? Parental Influences on Self-identities and Self-esteem of Second Generation Youths in Spain Abstract: We review the literature on determinants of ethnic/national self-identities and self-esteem as a prelude to examining these outcomes among a large, statistically representative sample of second generation adolescents in Madrid and Barcelona. While these psycho-social outcomes are malleable, they still represent important dimensions of immigrant adaptation and can have significant consequences both for individual mobility and collective mobilizations. Current theories are largely based on data from the United States and other Anglophone countries. The availability of a new large Spanish survey allows us to test those theories in an entirely different socio-cultural context. In addition to having data on close to seven thousand second generation youths, the study includes a survey of the parents, allowing us to examine directly how parental factors affect adolescent psycho-social outcomes. Theoretical and practical implications of results are discussed. Creation-Date: 2011-09 File-URL: https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1479&context=fac_articles Number: 1345 Classification-JEL: D100, I390, J120, J130, I210 Keywords: National-identity, self-esteem, selective acculturation, dissonant acculturation, Spain Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp1102eWhoAreWeCorrectedSept2011.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Rina Agarwala Author-X-Name-First: Rina Author-X-Name-Last: Agarwala Author-Workplace-Name: Johns Hopkins University Title: Tapping the Indian Diaspora for Indian Development Abstract: This study examines how Indian immigrants in the US have impacted Indian development. The vast majority of Indian immigrants in the US are said to provide individual funds to various causes and family members in India. These linkages are, however, extremely diffuse and informal and, therefore, variable and difficult to study empirically. To explore the more formal, sustained transnational linkages occurring between the Indian dispora and the US, this study uses US-based organizations that are founded and led by Indians as the primary lens. This study complements similar studies being conducted by Min Zhou (University of California-Los Angeles) on Chinese immigrants, Jennifer Huynh (Princeton University) on Vietnamese immigrants, and Alejandro Portes (Princeton University) on immigrants from Colombia, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. In all these countries, the impact of diaspora populations on national development has long existed and has been consistently understudied. Creation-Date: 2011-03 File-URL: https://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2012TransnationalMeeting/2012-India.pdf Number: 1346 Classification-JEL: O15, F22 Keywords: India Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp11-03aAgarwala-India-Report-March-2011.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas Lacroix Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Lacroix Author-Workplace-Name: Oxford University Author-Name: Stephen Castles Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Castles Author-Workplace-Name: Oxford University Title: Indian and Polish Migrant organisations in the UK Abstract: Indians and Poles are among the most important immigrant groups in the UK. In 2009, with 625 000 persons, Indians are the largest foreign born group, the Poles are now the largest group of foreign nationality (494 000 persons) (ONS 2009). The choice of these two groups was driven by the intent to compare a long standing immigrant population with a recent one to check whether migratory historicity might have influenced the shaping of respective associational fields. The difference of ethnicities (Asian non Christian vs European Christian) was another aspect which influenced this choice: the race relation policy primarily targeted Black and Ethnic Minorities (BME) and therefore left aside white populations such as the Poles. Interestingly, the comparison between the two populations turned out to be very relevant but not for the expected reasons. In fact the Polish associational field we discovered has even older roots than the Indian one: it was basically established during the immediate post-war period. In addition, contrary to what the perceived cultural proximity led us to foresee, Polish associations tend to be more distant from the rest of the British civil society and therefore less sensitive to mainstream social change. These unexpected findings have rendered the comparison all the more fascinating. Creation-Date: 2011-04 File-URL: https://www.migrationinstitute.org/publications/indian-and-polish-migrant-organisations-in-the-uk Number: 1351 Classification-JEL: O15, F22 Keywords: India, Poland, United Kingdom Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp11-03fUK-TRAMO-chapter-07_12.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Min Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Min Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Workplace-Name: University of California, Los Angeles Title: Traversing Ancestral and New Homelands: Chinese Immigrant Transnational Organizations in the United States: A Report Abstract: This study aims to examine the origins and developments of Chinese immigrant transnational organizations in the United States and their effects on immigrants' socioeconomic incorporation in the new homeland and development in the ancestral homeland. Over the past three decades, immigrant transnational organizations in the U.S. have proliferated with accelerated immigration and the rise of new transportation and communication technologies that facilitate long-distance and cross-border ties. Their impact and influence have grown in tandem with immigrants? drive to make it in America as well as with the need for remittances and investments in sending countries. Numerous studies of Latin American immigrants have found that remittances and migrant investments represent one of the major sources of foreign exchange of the countries of origin and are even used as collateral for loans from international financial institutions and that transnational flows are not merely driven by individual behavior but oftentimes by collective forces via organizations as well (Faist 2006; Goldring 2002; Itzigsohn et al. 1999; Landolt 2000; Portes 2001). But the density and strength of the economic, political, and sociocultural ties of immigrant groups across borders vary, and the effects of transnational organizations created by immigrants in the U.S. on developments of respective countries of origin also vary (Portes et al 2007). Nevertheless, the sum total of the transnational movements and the subsequent contributions of immigrants to families and communities left behind acquire ?structural? importance for both sending and receiving countries as these flows affect both the pace and forms of incorporation of immigrants in the US and the economic prospects of those they left behind. Creation-Date: 2011-02 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2012TransnationalMeeting/2012-China.pdf Number: 1352 Classification-JEL: F22, O15 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:2012-China.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Annelien Meerts Author-X-Name-First: Annelien Author-X-Name-Last: Meerts Author-Workplace-Name: Utrecht University Author-Name: Gery Nijenhuis Author-X-Name-First: Gery Author-X-Name-Last: Nijenhuis Author-Workplace-Name: Utrecht University Author-Name: Annelies Zoomers Author-X-Name-First: Annelies Author-X-Name-Last: Zoomers Author-Workplace-Name: Utrecht University Title: Transnational activities of migrant organizations in the Netherlands and political participation: the case of the Surinamese organizations Abstract: The potential of migrants to promote poverty reduction and development in their regions of origin - which is generally referred to as the "migration and development nexus" is a hot topic on the development agenda. Several seminars on this issue have recently been held, such as the 2006 UN Migrants in Development Cooperation conference, the three Global Forums on Migration and Development, and the Brussels-based M4D initiative, which explicitly targets civil society. In addition, several host countries have developed specific co-development programmes aimed at supporting migrants' transnational activities and linking these to development (IFRI, 2008; Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2010). Migrants are enthusiastically welcomed in international development cooperation for two reasons. First, the role of remittances, and particularly the amount of money sent back to areas of origin, is recognized. In many countries, the flow of remittances surpasses the ODA flows, and in some countries is even larger than FDI flows. Second, migrants1 who are involved in transnational activities are considered "bridge builders" between communities and development organizations in both their countries of origin and their countries of settlement. Since they know the language and culture of both countries, they are considered capable of building the capacity of communities in their countries of origin and linking them to development organizations in the North. They are thus expected to contribute to sustainable poverty reduction and development in their regions of origin (Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, 2009). Creation-Date: 2011-04 File-URL: https://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2012TransnationalMeeting/2012-Netherlands.pdf Number: 1353 Classification-JEL: F22, O15 Keywords: Netherlands, Suriname Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp11-03hWorking-paper_Meerts-Nijenhuis-Zoomers.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Alejandro Portes Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro Author-X-Name-Last: Portes Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Min Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Min Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Workplace-Name: University of California, Los Angeles Title: The Eagle and the Dragon: Immigrant Transnationalism and Development in Mexico and China Abstract: The literature on development in economics and sociology has tended to focus on capital flows, investments and, more recently, institutions as key causal factors. International migration, when discussed, is relegated to the status of a symptom of underdevelopment and even a factor contributing to it. The more recent literature on migrant remittances has partially reversed this view by documenting the massive hard currency transfers made by expatriates to their home countries. This changed approach to migration and development does not go far enough because it does not take into account the organized efforts of immigrant communities themselves. Nor does it consider the major developmental synergies produced by the rising interactions between immigrant organizations and sending-country governments. Using data from a recently completed comparative study, we document these processes for two major counties of out-migration?Mexico and China. The study compiled inventories of migrant organizations from both countries in the United States, interviewed leaders of the major ones and complemented these data with interviews with officials and community leaders in each sending country. Maps of these transnational ties were constructed, exemplifying their increasing density and developmental impact at the local and national levels. Theoretical and policy implications of our findings are discussed. Creation-Date: 2011-04 File-URL: https://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/papers/wp1101-Portes-Zhou_Eagle-and-Dragon_final_3-1-2011.pdf Number: 1387 Classification-JEL: J00, J11, J15, J61, F24 Keywords: Transnationalism, immigrant organizations, remittances, Mexican development, Chinese development, Mexico, China Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:wp1101-Portes-Zhou_Eagle-and-Dragon_final_3-1-2011.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Rina Agarwala Author-X-Name-First: Rina Author-X-Name-Last: Agarwala Author-Workplace-Name: Johns Hopkins University Title: Tapping the Indian Diaspora for Indian Development Abstract: According to the Government of India, there are over 20 million people of Indian origin living outside India (GOI 2000). They live in nearly every country of the world, and they span the spectrum of class, profession, and history -- ranging from 5th generation descendants of indentured servants in the Caribbean, to 4th generation descendants of mercenaries and traders operating under British colonialism in Africa, to 2nd generation descendants of doctors and engineers in North America. Indians today continue to migrate outside India to work as undocumented construction workers or domestic servants in the Middle East, as taxi drivers in New Jersey, as CEOs of multinational banks in Latin America, and as information technology (IT) entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley. Given the magnitude and diversity of the Indian diaspora, it is surprising how little we know about their impact on India. Creation-Date: 2012-01 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2012TransnationalMeeting/2012-India.pdf Number: 1407 Classification-JEL: F22, O15 Keywords: India Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:2012-India.pdf Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Hector Cebolla Boado Author-X-Name-First: Hector Author-X-Name-Last: Cebolla Boado Author-Workplace-Name: Complutense University of Madrid Author-Name: Ana Lopez Sala Author-X-Name-First: Ana Author-X-Name-Last: Lopez Sala Author-Workplace-Name: Complutense University of Madrid Title: A TOP-DOWN MODEL OF TRANSNATIONAL IMMIGRANT ASSOCIATIONISM: Migrant organizations in the definition of development and integration policies in Madrid Abstract: Spain has eased the irruption of migrant organizations in a remarkable short period of time. Migrant associations have had, and still have, a distinguished position vis-a-vis public authorities in designing and influencing the definition of integration policies. Integration plans in Spain have so far given priority to both associations as representatives of stakeholders and to co-development as a key element for the incorporation of immigrants in Spain. As a result, associations have developed intense ties with the public administrations at all levels. We define this whole approach as top-down model stimulating the establishment of transnational ties among migrant organizations. The paper analyses the organizational features that give priority access to public resources to some organizations and how this, at its time, eases the implementation of transnational strategies including co-development and contact with officials at the highest level in countries of origin. Creation-Date: 2012-01 File-URL: http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/64150/1/Top-down%20model_2012.pdf Number: 1408 Classification-JEL: F22, O15 Keywords: Spain Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:2012-01 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Viviana A. Zelizer Author-X-Name-First: Viviana Author-X-Name-Last: Zelizer Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: Remittance Circuits Creation-Date: 2014-09 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2014-conference-from-econ/Viviana-Zelizer.pdf Number: Classification-JEL: F24 Keywords: remittances Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:15-01a Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez Author-X-Name-First: Margarita Author-X-Name-Last: Cervantes-Rodriguez Author-Workplace-Name: Complutense University of Madrid Title: Uneven Development and the Transnational Involvement of Nicaraguan Immigrant Organizations in South Florida Abstract: This paper offers the results of the first comprehensive study on Nicaraguan immigrant organizations in Miami Dade County.1 It identifies a total of eighty one Nicaraguan immigrant organizations which have been founded in different periods since 1980s and focuses on forty organizations which are currently active. This study resulted in the elaboration of an inventory of the organizations and a description of some of their main characteristics such as the years in which they were formed and goals; whether they are formally registered; major characteristics of the leaders of the organizations and the members related to class, gender, ethnicity, regions of origin, social networking, and individual attributes related to leadership; and the characteristics of their engagement in Miami-Dade County and in localities and communities in Nicaragua. Creation-Date: 2012-01 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2012TransnationalMeeting/2012-Nicaragua.pdf Number: 1409 Classification-JEL: F22, O15 Keywords: Nicaragua; Florida Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:2012-01Nicaragua Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Cristina Escobar Author-X-Name-First: Cristina Author-X-Name-Last: Escobar Author-Workplace-Name: Rutgers University Title: Colombian and Dominican Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development Abstract: In 2011, Colombian organizations put together events to help the estimated two million people affected by the heavy rains that fell in various regions of Colombia the previous year and which caused slides, inundations, etc. In the greater New York area, they organized events such as a gastronomic/humoristic/dance festival in Connecticut, an Ayudaton (helpathon) in Queens, and a large banquet to raise funds in New York. With these efforts, the organizations were responding to the call for assistance made by the president of Colombia, who was in the city talking to union leaders in order to promote the signing of a free-trade agreement with Colombia. Creation-Date: 2012-05 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2012TransnationalMeeting/2012-Colombia-Dominican.pdf Number: 1410 Classification-JEL: F22, O15 Keywords: Colombia; Dominican Republic Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:2012-05 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Natasha Iskander Author-X-Name-First: Natasha Author-X-Name-Last: Iskander Author-Workplace-Name: New York University Title: Partners in Organizing: Engagement between Migrants and the State in the Production of Mexican Hometown Associations Abstract: The massive historic protests in 2006 against anti-immigrant legislation in the United States have sparked renewed interest in immigrant community mobilization. Analysts have turned to Mexican immigrants in particular, not in the least because Mexicans represent the largest immigrant group in the United States by far. In this focus, many scholars and policy makers both have trained their attention on one form of Mexican civic organization that played an important, yet somewhat unanticipated role in the pro-immigrant marches of the mid-2000s: hometown associations, often called HTAs (Bada, Fox, and Selee 2006; Garcia-Acevedo 2008; Portes, Escobar, and Radford 2007). Broadly defined as organizations formed by migrants from a same community of origin (Fox and Bada 2009), they have been roundly lauded as structures that provide migrants with a wide array of support (Ramakrishnan and Viramontes 2010). HTAs have been characterized as organizations through which migrants not only maintain their cultural identity and sustain their affective connection to their hometowns, but also as structures through which compatriots from the same community or region of origin can provide one another with social and material backing in the US (Bada 2011; Orozco 2004). Creation-Date: 2012-05 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2012TransnationalMeeting/2012-Mexico.pdf Number: 1411 Classification-JEL: F22, K37 Keywords: Mexico Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:2012-05Mexican Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas Lacroix Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Lacroix Author-Workplace-Name: University of Poitiers Author-Name: Antoine Dumont Author-X-Name-First: Antoine Author-X-Name-Last: Dumont Author-Workplace-Name: University of Poitiers Title: Moroccan in France: their organizations and activities back home Abstract: The Moroccan is one of the largest migration groups in France, whose presence in France dates back from the early 20th century (De Haas 2005). In contrast with other North African states, Morocco has made emigration a key tool of its development policy. Against this backdrop, Moroccan authorities have maintained a continuous and often confrontational dialogue with Moroccan organizations abroad (Iskander 2010). Since the sixties, they played a key role in representing the overseas diaspora. But far from being a mere transmission belt of state policies, the Moroccan organizational field has generated a large array of political, cultural and social connections. While public authorities have, for long, regarded Moroccan organizations as agents of development, they became genuine political actors in both the place of settlement and in the society of origin. Creation-Date: 2012-05 File-URL: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4597/18ec1e86b3fa1b482bbc33ada64dcf178de0.pdf Number: 1412 Classification-JEL: F22 Keywords: Morocco, France Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:2012-05Moroccan Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Min Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Min Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Author-Workplace-Name: University of California, Los Angeles Author-Name: Rennie Lee Author-X-Name-First: Rennie Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Author-Workplace-Name: University of California, Los Angeles Title: Traversing Ancestral and New Homelands: Chinese Immigrant Transnational Organizations in the United States Abstract: Over the past three decades, immigrant transnational organizations in the United States have proliferated with accelerated international migration and the rise of new transportation and communication technologies that facilitate long-distance and cross-border ties. Their impact and influence have grown in tandem with immigrants drive to make it in America, their new homeland, as well as with the need for remittances and investments in sending countries -- their ancestral homelands. Numerous studies of immigrant groups found that remittances and migrant investments represented one of the major sources of foreign exchange of sending countries and were used as ?collateral? for loans from international financial institutions (Basch et al. 1994; Glick-Schiller et al. 1992; Portes et al. 1999). Past studies also found that transnational flows were not merely driven by individual behavior but by collective forces via organizations as well (Goldring 2002; Landolt 2000; Moya 2005; Piper 2009; Popkin 1999; Portes et al. 2007; Portes and Zhou 2012; Schrover and Vermeulen 2005; Waldinger et al. 2008). But the density and strength of the economic, sociocultural, and political ties of immigrant groups across borders vary, and the effects of immigrant transnational organizations on homeland development vary (Portes et al. 1999, 2007). Nevertheless, the sum total of the transnational movements and the subsequent contributions of immigrants to families and communities left behind acquire structural importance for both sending and receiving countries as these flows affect both the pace and forms of incorporation of immigrants in the US and the economic prospects of those they left behind. Creation-Date: 2012-05 File-URL: http://www.princeton.edu/cmd/working-papers/2011-immigrant-organizati/11-03gZhou_Final-report-on-Chinese-immigrant-transnational-organizations-in-US_Feb5-2011.pdf Number: 1413 Classification-JEL: F22 Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev: Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas Lacroix Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Lacroix Author-Workplace-Name: Oxford University Title: The Communicative Dimension of Migrant Remittances and its Political Implications Creation-Date: 2014-09 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2014-conference-from-econ/Thomas-Lacroix.pdf Number: Classification-JEL: F24 Keywords: remittances Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:15-01b Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Thibaut Jaulin Author-X-Name-First: Thibaut Author-X-Name-Last: Jaulin Author-Workplace-Name: Sciences Po Title: The Geography of External Voting: The 2011 Tunisian Election Abroad Creation-Date: 2014-09 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2014-conference-from-econ/Thibaut-Jaulin.pdf Number: Classification-JEL: D72, F22 Keywords: Tunisia Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:15-01c Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Jean-Michel Lafleur Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Michel Author-X-Name-Last: Lafleur Author-Workplace-Name: Université de Liège Author-Name: Olivier Lizin Author-X-Name-First: Olivier Author-X-Name-Last: Lizin Author-Workplace-Name: Université de Liège Title: Transnational Health Insurance Schemes: A New Avenue for Congolese Immigrants in Belgium to Care for Their Relatives' Health from Abroad? Creation-Date: 2014-09 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2014-conference-from-econ/wps15-01d.pdf Number: Classification-JEL: F22, I13 Keywords: Congo, Belgium Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:15-01d Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Gery Nijenhuis Author-X-Name-First: Gery Author-X-Name-Last: Nijenhuis Author-Workplace-Name: Utrecht University Author-Name: Annelies Zoomer Author-X-Name-First: Annelies Author-X-Name-Last: Zoomer Author-Workplace-Name: Utrecht University Title: Transnational activities of immigrant organizations in the Netherlands: Do Ghanaian, Moroccan and Surinamese diaspora organizations enhance development? Abstract: Globalization is commonly assumed to have important implications for development processes, including opportunities for poverty alleviation. Globalization connects people and places that are distant in space but linked in such ways that what happens in one place has direct bearing on the other (Giddens 1990, 64; also Harvey 1989). According to Appadurai (1996, 192), globalization creates landscapes of translocalities: Such localities create complex conditions for the production and reproduction of locality in which ties of marriage, work, business and leisure weave together various circulating populations, with kinds of locals to create neighbourhoods that belong in one sense to particular nation-states, but are from another point of view what might be called translocalities. In a globalizing world, local development is increasingly played out in a matrix of links that connect people and places with people and places elsewhere. Creation-Date: 2012-05 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2012TransnationalMeeting/2012-Netherlands.pdf Number: 1414 Classification-JEL: F22, O15 Keywords: Netherlands, Ghana, Morocco, Suriname Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:2012-05Diaspora Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Jennifer Huynh Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer Author-X-Name-Last: Huynh Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Author-Name: Jessica Yiu Author-X-Name-First: Jessica Author-X-Name-Last: Yiu Author-Workplace-Name: Princeton University Title: Breaking Blocked Transnationalism: Intergenerational Change in Homeland Ties Abstract: Migrant-homeland ties are the subject of much contemporary interest from scholars focusing on post 1965 immigration from Latin America and Asia. The profile of Vietnamese emigration is different from that of other Asian countries because the vast majority of overseas Vietnamese fled the country as refugees. The transnational practices of political refugees have been under-theorized; home country networks are likely to be different for forced versus voluntary migrants. Unlike most immigrants, refugees are generally barred from returning to their home countries, and hence their capacity to engage in transnational activities is more restricted. Creation-Date: 2012-05 File-URL: https://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2012TransnationalMeeting/2012-Vietnam.pdf Number: 1416 Classification-JEL: F22, O15 Keywords: Transnationalism; integration; assimilation; Vietnamese; Diaspora studies; civic participation; Vietnam; Viet Nam Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev: Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Idrissa Diabata Author-X-Name-First: Idrissa Author-X-Name-Last: Diabata Author-Workplace-Name: INSTAT, Mali Author-Name: Sandrine Mesplé-Somps Author-X-Name-First: Sandrine Author-X-Name-Last: Mesplé-Somps Author-Workplace-Name: IRD Title: Female Genital Mutilation and Migration in Mali: Do Migrants Transfer Social Norms? Abstract: In this paper, we investigate how powerful a mechanism migration is in the transmission of social norms, taking Mali and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a case study. Mali has a strong FGM culture and a long-standing history of migration. We use an original household-level database coupled with census data to analyze the extent to which girls living in villages with high rates of return migrants are less prone to FGM. Malians migrate predominantly to other African countries where female circumcision is uncommon (e.g. Côte d’Ivoire) and to countries where FGM is totally banned (France and other developed countries) and where anti-FGM information campaigns frequently target African migrants. Taking a two-step instrumental variable approach to control for the endogeneity of migration decisions, we show that return migrants have a negative and significant influence on FGM. We also show that adults living in villages with return migrants are more in favor of legislation against FGM. Creation-Date: 2014-09 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2014-conference-from-econ/Sandrine-Mesple-Somps.pdf Number: Classification-JEL: D71, I12, F22 Keywords: Mali Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:15-01e Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Supriya Singh Author-X-Name-First: Supriya Author-X-Name-Last: Singh Author-Workplace-Name: RMIT University Title: Beyond the Dichotomy: Money and the Transnational Family in India and Australia Abstract: Material and immaterial remittances shape each other among recent Indian migrants to Australia. A transformation of the nature and flow of material remittances has been accompanied by changes in family structures and norms. I draw on my qualitative research between 2005 and 2014 on Indian migrants to Australia to show that material remittances have increasingly been going two ways since 1996. These two-way material remittances together with greater communication via mobile phones, satellite TV from India, reciprocal visits and policies relating to paid family reunion are bringing the normative structures and practices of the patrilineal joint Indian family to Australia. However, the developmental cycle of the joint family is different. The first generation of migrants who came as professionals between the 1970s and 1990s spoke of the loss of family, the narrowing of the boundaries of the extended family, and tensions relating to the one-way flow of money and communication. Recent migrants who came as student and skilled migrants between 1996 and the present, speak of everyday communication with their families, parents’ contribution to their material and social well being and their own plans for temporary or permanent extended and joint family living in Australia. This focus on how material and immaterial remittances are received and translated in the country of destination complements the study of the sending of remittances to the source country. Creation-Date: 2014-09 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2014-conference-from-econ/Supriya-Singh.pdf Number: Classification-JEL: F24 Keywords: Australia, India, remittances Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:15-01f Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Ilka Vari-Lavoisier Author-X-Name-First: Ilka Author-X-Name-Last: Vari-Lavoisier Author-Workplace-Name: Ecole Normale Supérieure Title: The Circulation of Monies and Ideas between Paris, Dakar, and New York: The Impact of Remittances on Corruption Abstract: How do flows of monies and flows of ideas interrelate as they circulate between New York, Dakar, and Paris? This paper shows how the conceptual framework of economic sociology can encompass and further conclusions produced by the scholarship investigating the migration-development nexus. A theoretical approach to economic sociology shows that migrants’ financial remittances perform a transnational relational work critical to the circulation of ideas between continents. Bringing together studies of economic remittances and social remittances, this project explores the channels through which migrants’ transfers can influence corruption. Two transnational datasets collected in France, Senegal, and the United States (in 2011-2012) are combined to propose a structural model (SEM). This analysis of the channels through which migrants’ transfers impact the socio-political environment of their homeland contributes to a better understanding of the interrelations between tangible and intangible resources. Creation-Date: 2014-09 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2014-conference-from-econ/Ilka-Vari-Lavoisier.pdf Number: Classification-JEL: F24 Keywords: remittances, Segenal, France Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:15-01g Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Erik R. Vickstrom Author-X-Name-First: Erik Author-X-Name-Last: Vickstrom Author-Workplace-Name: United States Census Bureau Title: Legal Status, Territorial Confinement, and Transnational Activities of Senegalese Migrants in France, Italy, and Spain Abstract: This paper examines the link between legal status and transnational activities. The literature on transnational activities has not sufficiently grappled with the role of physical mobility in the maintenance of effective ties that underlie non-mobile, long-distance transnational activities nor has it adequately examined the role of the state in constraining this geographical mobility. I thus hypothesize that the legal constraint of irregular status will both physically confine migrants to the destination territory, decreasing homeland visits, and will indirectly constrain other non-mobile transnational activities by reducing effective ties with origin communities through limited physical mobility. I find that Senegalese migrants who lack of secure legal status are effectively confined to the destination territory, making them unable to make short visits to the homeland. Lack of occasional visits as a result of this confinement short-circuits the entire social infrastructure underlying remitting and investing: the effective ties that underlie long-distance cross-border activities wither when migrants are unable to circulate. I also find an important difference between household-based activities — remitting and investing — and the communal activity of hometown association participation, with the former being more responsive to the territorial confinement produced by irregular status. Creation-Date: 2014-09 File-URL: http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2014-conference-from-econ/Erik-Vickstrom.pdf Number: Classification-JEL: F24, K37 Keywords: Senegal, France, Italy, Spain, remittances Handle: RePEc:pri:cmgdev:15-01h