How Filipino immigrants in Italy send money back home
Subtitle: the role of informal cross-border money remittances in the global economy
By: Natalia Ribas-Mateos And Charito Basa ; with a preface by Lourdes Beneria
Contributors: Basa, Charito
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773425538
Subjects: Filipinos; Emigrant remittances; Employment; Women immigrants
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Towards new paradigms; title: The relevance of the Filipino case; title: Frameworks of interpretation; title: The feminisation of migration from a Filipino perspective; title: Female Filipino migrants in Italy; title: Remittances as the new global trend; title: Making final goals : rural development and food security; title: The migration chapter; title: The migratory process; title: Evaluation of migration changes within the household; title: The selected migration areas; title: Family remittances; title: The transfer system; title: Remittance strategy; title: Gender relations; title: In the shadow of migration : agriculture sustainability; title: Impact on agriculture; title: Impact on food security; title: Community projects; title: Suggesting ideas for the future; title: Towards a community driven-development; title: The focus on institutional change; title: The focus on changing market access; title: Rural finance; title: Rural enterprises; title: Other types of rural investment; title: Conclusions.