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- Title
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Migration, Remittances, and the Neo-Liberal Model.
- Authors
Acosta Varela, Camila
- Abstract
This article examines the effects of neo-liberal policies on the political and economic opportunities of many Latin American workers, and their role in creating the conditions for increasing emigration rates from the region. Through an analysis of migrant workers' plight both in their home and host countries, I examine the conditions that propel their emigration, mainly for the goal of providing for their families, through the sending of remittances. This growing trend has provided many countries with an influx of foreign income from migrant workers and has caused some countries to consider remittances as a source of resources for development. In this article, I argue that this new strategy for development is not only tenuous, but may perpetuate the very conditions that create its need.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ECONOMIC opportunities; EMIGRATION &; immigration; ECONOMIC development; INCOME; UNITED States economic policy, 2009-2017
- Publication
Undercurrent, 2016, Vol 12, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
1712-0934
- Publication type
Article