New perspectives on remittances from Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States
By: Germán Zárate-Hoyos [coordinator].
Contributors: Zárate Hoyos, Germán A.
Series: International labor migration
Publisher: Kassel University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Kassel [Germany]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9783899582567
Subjects: Emigrant remittances -- Mexico; Emigrant remittances -- Central America; Foreign workers, Mexican -- United States; Foreign workers, Latin American -- United States
Work titles: Remesas de los mexicanos y centroamericanos en Estados Unidos.
Notes: Updated version, with one new chapter and one replacement chapter by a new author, of a book published in Spanish as: Remesas de los mexicanos y centroamericanos en Estados Unidos : problemas y perspectivas. 2004.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Donald F. Terry; title: Preface to the second edition / Germán A. Zárate; title: Mexican migrants and remittances to Mexico / Rodolfo Corona and Jorge Santibánez; title: Consumption, savings and remittances in Mexican households / Germán A. Zárate-Hoyos; title: Migrant remittances : savings funds or wage income / Alejandro Canales; title: A multiplier analysis of remittances in the Mexican economy / Germán A. Zárate-Hoyos; title: Transnational philanthropy and organizational strategies : the challenge of Mexican hometown associations in the United States / Rafael Alarcón and Luis Escala Rabadan; title: Can remittances spur growth in local communities? : the case of Los Altos of Jalisco / German Vega Briones; title: The ECLAC remittance case studies in Central America : lessons and evidence / Jorge Martinez Pizarro; title: Remittances in Latin America and future research / German A. Zárate-Hoyos and Scott Anderson.