The article reports on a survey by the Inter-American Development Bank that found fewer Latin American immigrants are sending money home due to the economic downturn and the crackdown on illegal immigrants. The survey found that immigrants who remitted money home dropped by 50% in early 2008 ...
Remittances: how much money do migrants send home? – interactiveteam, Guardian InteractiveHarris, RichProvost, Claire
Sending money to your own account, the company says, is “completely free” while international transfer fees are just £2.50. In the United States, the biggest players are still MoneyGram and Western Union, according to reports. With the US being the biggest remittance contributor in the ...
When sending money home, temporary migrants are engaging in a sort of precautionary savings, although accumulated in their home country, and remittances have to be considered and investigated as a type of saving decision. Indeed, many studies have tested the theoretical hypothesis of the motives ...
: Remittance sending among low-paid migrant workers in London. This paper challenges the recent hailing of migrant remittances as a panacea for development finance in countries of the global South. It argues that such ... Datta,Kavita,McIIwaine,... - 《International Development Planning Review》...
The presence of return migrants actuallyreduces the likelihood of violencein Mexico, our research shows. There, when migrants come home, they inject their hometowns withmuch-needed social and human capital. That creates a kind of local revival that leads crime to drop. ...
UAE is the world’s second largest remittance economy, with millions of migrants regularly sending money to support family and friends in their home countries. However, under current systems, these largely unbanked migrants have to queue in the heat for some time to access expensive, slow money ...
a sense of pride and accomplishment for their contribution to a prestigious sporting event, one of these workers stated to a New York Times reporter that “For me, work and money is more important than football” (New York Times,2022)....
In the last few years, traditional migrant-sending states in northwestern Mexico Durango, Jalisco, and Zacatecas have lost ground to states such as Nuevo Leon and particularly the Distrito Federal. These states now represent a larger proportion of total migration flows. Today, M�xico, San ...
and instead of us sending money to our families, they are sending money to us in order to eat, which is unfair. So I’m not going to risk my life to get somewhere where I have no one, when getting there is so dangerous, so I’d rather go home,” said Reina Elizabet Perez a Ho...