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How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become agents of homeland development. The essays that follow focus on the varied impacts immigrants have had in China, India, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Mozambique, and Turkey. One contributor examines the role Indians who worked in Silicon Valley played in shaping the structure, successes, and continued evolution of India's IT industry. Another traces how Salvadoran immigrants extend U.S. gangs and their brutal violence to El Salvador and neighboring countries. The tragic situation in Mozambique of economically desperate ÉmigrÉs who travel to South Africa to work, contract HIV while there, and infect their wives upon their return is the subject of another essay. Taken together, the essays show the multiple ways countries are affected by immigration. Understanding these effects will provide a foundation for future policy reforms in ways that will strengthen the positive and minimize the negative effects of the current mobile world.Contributors. Victor Agadjanian, Boaventura Cau, JosÉ Miguel Cruz, Susan Eva Eckstein, Kyle Eischen, David Scott FitzGerald, Natasha Iskander, Riva Kastoryano, Cecilia MenjÍvar, Adil Najam, Rhacel Salazar ParreÑas, Alejandro Portes, Min Ye
Contents
List of Tables and Figures viii
Preface xi
1. Immigrants from Developing Countries: An Overview of Their Homeland Impacts / Susan Eckstein 1
2. Migration and Development: Reconciling Opposite Views / Alejandro Portes 30
3. How Overseas Chinese Spurred the Economic "Miracle" in Their Homeland / Min Ye 52
4. Immigrants' Globalization of the Indian Economy / Kyle Eischen 75
5. How Cuban Americans Are Unwittingly Transforming Their Homeland / Susan Eckstein 92
6. Immigrant Impacts in Mexico: A Tale of Dissimilation / David Scott Fitzgerald 114
7. "Turks Abroad" Redefine Turkish Nationalism / Riva Kastoryano 138
8. Moroccan Migrants as Unlikely Captains of Industry: Remittances, Financial Intermediation, and La Banque Centrale Populaire / Natasha Iskander 156
9. The Gender Revolution in the Philippines: Migrant Mothering and Social Transformations / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas 191
10. Beyond Social Remittances: Migration and Transnational Gangs in Central America / José Miguel Cruz 213
11. Economic Uncertainties, Social Strains, and HIV Risks: The Effects of Male Labor Migration on Rural Women in Mozambique / Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjívar, and Boaventura Cau 234
Contributors 253
Index 257
