The state and the grassroots
Subtitle: immigrant transnational organizations in four continents
By: edited by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781782387343; 9781782387350
Subjects: Immigrants; Case studies; Societies; Cultural assimilation; Emigration and immigration; Transnationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Immigration, transnationalism, and development : the state of the question / Alejandro Portes; title: Traversing ancestral and new homelands : Chinese immigrant-transnational organizations in the United States / Min Zhou and Rennie Lee; title: Transnational philanthropy of urban migrants : Colombian and Dominican; title: Immigrant organizations and development / Cristina Escobar; title: Tapping the Indian diaspora for Indian development / Rina Agarwala; title: Partners in organizing : engagement between migrants and the state in the production of Mexican hometown associations / Natasha Iskander; title: Navigating uneven development : the dynamics of fractured transnationalism / Margarita Rodríguez; title: Breaking blocked transnationalism : intergenerational change in homeland ties / Jennifer Huynh and Jessica Yiu; title: Moroccan and Congolese migrant organizations in Belgium / Marie Godin, Barbara Herman, Andrea Rea, and Rebecca Thys; title: Moroccans in France : their organizations and activities back home / Thomas Lacroix and Antoine Dumont; title: Transnational activities of immigrants in the netherlands : do Ghanaian, Moroccan, and Surinamese diaspora organizations enhance development? / Gery Nijenhuis and Annelies Zoomers; title: Transnational immigrant organizations in Spain : their role in development and integration / Héctor Cebolla Boado and Ana López-Sala; title: Conclusion. assimilation through transnationalism : a theoretical synthesis / Patricia Fernández-Kelly.