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Return or Remittances? Diaspora Economic Policies of Latin American and Caribbean States
¿Retorno o remesas? Políticas económicas de los Estados de Latinoamérica y el Caribe hacia su diáspora
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Abstract
Explanations of why migrants return to their countries of origin tend to focus on factors at micro and macro levels: from seeing it as individual choice (e. g. neoclassical economics) or household strategy (e. g. new economics of labor migration), to seeing it as determined by structural conditions... mehr
Explanations of why migrants return to their countries of origin tend to focus on factors at micro and macro levels: from seeing it as individual choice (e. g. neoclassical economics) or household strategy (e. g. new economics of labor migration), to seeing it as determined by structural conditions of receiving or sending countries (e. g. economic cycles, wage differentials, etc.). Yet we know very little about how states of origin combine their policies towards emigrants to establish economic links with them, from remittances to return. With an original dataset for Latin American and Caribbean countries, we can provide an initial descriptive panorama that highlights the choices that countries make in this regard. We compare the return policies to other economic policies geared to emigrants. This helps us in detecting return policies, which is often a neglected dimension in comparative diaspora policy studies, as one among several that states of origin develop to achieve their economic strategies. Also, this first attempt at descriptive analysis provides further paths to explore the causal links behind diaspora policy development in the realm of economic policy.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Lateinamerika; Karibischer Raum; Migrant; Rückwanderung; Diaspora; Wirtschaftspolitik; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; sozioökonomische Entwicklung; Migrationsforschung; soziale Integration
Klassifikation
Migration
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 141-163
Zeitschriftentitel
Apuntes, 46 (2019) 84
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21678/apuntes.84.1017
ISSN
2223-1757
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)