Title
The cross-border connection [electronic resource] : immigrants, emigrants, and their homelands / Roger Waldinger.
ISBN
9780674736283 electronic book
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015].
Copyright
©2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (231 pages)
Item Number
10.4159/harvard.9780674736283 doi
Call Number
JV6033 .W35 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.9/0691
Summary
Newcomers moving away from the developing world find that migration is a good thing, letting them enjoy the benefits of residence in the developed world, some of which they send on to their relatives at home in the form of remittances. Residing in a democratic state, free from the long arm of their place of origin, emigrants mobilize to produce change in the homelands they left. Emigration states, in turn, extend their influence across boundaries to protect nationals and retain their loyalty abroad. Time, however, proves corrosive, and in the end most immigrants and their descendants become progressively disconnected from their home country, reorienting their concerns and commitments to the place where they actually live. --Provided by publisher
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Despription based on print version record.
Immigrants, emigrants, and their homelands
Beyond transnationalism
The dialectic of emigration and immigration
Cross-border ties : keeping and losing the connection
Engaging at home from abroad : the paradox of homeland politics
Emigrants and emigration states
Politics across borders : Mexico and its emigrants
Hometown blues: migrants' long-distance pursuit of development
Conclusion : foreign detachment.
