Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool

Matt Bakker

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2015

Migrating into Financial Markets

How Remittances Became a Development Tool

Matt Bakker

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520960930

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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.

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Bakker Matt :

Matt Bakker is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Marymount University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part 1. The Remittances-to-Development Agenda at the Global Scale
1. Introducing the Remittances-to-Development Agenda: Migration, Remittances, and Development — Three Vignettes Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Facts, Figures, and the Politics of Measurement: The Construction and Diffusion of Remittances as a Financial Flow Open Access Download PDF	34
3. Forging the Remittances-to-Development Nexus: Conceptual Linkages and Political Practices Open Access Download PDF	58
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 Open Access Download PDF	115
5. From Promise to Practice: Toward Financial Democracy in North America Open Access Download PDF	162
6. Conclusions Open Access Download PDF	201
Notes Open Access Download PDF	217
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	229
Index Open Access Download PDF	255