TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bakker,Matt
TI  - Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool 
SN  - 9780520960930
AV  - HG3891 .B354 2015
U1  - 332/.04246 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Berkeley, CA : 
PB  - University of California Press, 
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Emigrant remittances
KW  - North America
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 21st century finance
KW  - american dollar
KW  - business economics
KW  - business finance
KW  - business
KW  - capitalism
KW  - developing countries
KW  - economic development
KW  - economics of emigration
KW  - economics of immigration
KW  - financial democracy
KW  - global economics
KW  - global finance
KW  - immigrants sending money home
KW  - migrant remittances
KW  - migrants sending money home
KW  - migrants with money
KW  - migration and money
KW  - migration
KW  - money and power
KW  - money matters
KW  - money
KW  - national development
KW  - politics of measurement
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Part 1. The Remittances-to-Development Agenda at the Global Scale --; 1. Introducing the Remittances-to-Development Agenda: Migration, Remittances, and Development - Three Vignettes --; 2. Facts, Figures, and the Politics of Measurement: The Construction and Diffusion of Remittances as a Financial Flow --; 3. Forging the Remittances-to-Development Nexus: Conceptual Linkages and Political Practices --; Part 2. The Long Road to Financial Democracy in North America: From State-Led Transnationalism to Intergovernmental Collaboration --; 4. Bringing Remittances into the North American Economic-Integration Project: A Genealogy of Mexican State-Led Transnationalism --; 5. From Promise to Practice: Toward Financial Democracy in North America --; 6. Conclusions --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
N2  - A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances-the resources of some of the world's least affluent people-have come to be seen in recent years as a fundamental contributor to development in the migrant-sending states of the Global South. This book analyzes how the connection between remittances and development was forged through the concrete political and intellectual practices of policy entrepreneurs within a variety of institutional settings, from national government agencies and international development organizations to nongovernmental policy foundations and think tanks
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520960930?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520960930
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ER  -