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182Able-bodied men.Women migrateonly if householdeconomic situationis very bad.Contractor pays forfood until they getpaid for the workat the end of thecontract.Coping when nowork at home.Rs 65/day. Workavailability low.Manage to surviveduring the leanseason anddrought.Work alongsideteams of Vaddimigrants but onthe “lighter” jobsin plantations andfor the ForestDepartment.Migrate only duringdrought and leanmonths.VP: SC hamlet. Mala (SC) marginalfarmers.Single person fromhousehold.None. AccumulativeAverage earningis Rs. 50/day andthis kind of work isavailable all yearround.Better paid thanlocal, casuallaboring.Mixed. Non-farm and farmlaboring in nearbyurban and 12nearby villages withirrigated farming.Migrate for 15–30days at a time.OP: dry, partlytank-irrigated. Neardistrict capital.Harvest sugarcanefor the sugarfactory in Bodhan(Nizambad, aneighboringdistrict), workusually fromOctober–March.Two–three adultsfrom a householdmigrate (usuallytwo males and onefemale), togetherwith children.Employer indestination (hecomes or they goin advance of themigration season).No middleman orcontractor.Accumulative now,started as copingmigration in the1970s. Migrantscan save up to Rs.3000/ month aftermeeting expensesand paying off debt.Most families returnwith a saving of atleast Rs. 10,000 ina seasonMore wealthbut children’seducation suffers.Mudiraj (BC) andLambada (ST).Small and marginalfarmers. Pair ofbulls and cartessential.MD: remote,unirrigated Verylarge numberof marginal andsubmarginalholdings. Muchof the land isunproductive.
MD: remote,unirrigated. Verylarge numberof marginal andsubmarginalholdings. Muchof the land isunproductive.Mala (SC), poorMudiraj (BC)marginal farmersConstruction laborin Hyderabad. Thiskind of work ismore opportunisticand risky so maybe left with no workand may have tosell utensils, etc.to pay for ticketback home or tomeet expenses atdestination.Young men,women, andbreastfeedingchildren.Local moneylender. Coping. Rs. 70/daywhen they get workbut this is not everyday. Expenses inthe city are high.For those familiesthat have beendoing this forseveral decadesand have acquiredskills/contacts,the work maybe more regularand thereforeaccumulative.Survival in the offseason.But canresult in savingsand investmentin children’seducation forthe longer-termmigrants.KO, KA: canalirrigated,prosperous.In KO, verylarge proportionof landlesshouseholds; KAhas more smallholdings but land ishighly productive.Mala (SC), Gowda(BC). Some ofthem may betenant farmers.Agricultural laborin other coastaldistricts. Only for15 days–month ina year when thereis no work locally,but it is availablein neighbouringdistrict. Theagriculturalseasons areslightly differentin neighbouringdistricts.Able-bodied menand women, nochildren.None. Coping. Rs. 50/dayand 0.5 kg of rice.Without this workthey would have toborrow money.MP Villagename andcharacteristicsCaste, skill andasset base ofmigrantsType of work andwhenWho migrates Source, amountand purpose ofcredit/advanceCoping oraccumulative andwage rateImpact on migranthousehold andsource location183
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The opinions expressed in the repor
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Table of ContentsForeword1 Migratio
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Foreword
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UN recorded that 61 million migrant
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about this and other programmes. Se
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Introduction
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overseas ethnic markets; and the wa
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labor migration. This narrower topi
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narrowing income inequalities withi
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and 2004 has increased the urban po
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Connecting Internaland Internationa
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it comes to questions of migration
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internal and international migratio
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the larger cities. British ships we
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states. At present, as part of our
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36and one on international migratio
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perspective 3 that gives methodolog
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commercial, industrial and service
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taken place in migration flows. The
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to what was left of the original en
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sought refuge in Lima. It was not p
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husband who sought refuge and work
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that take place between migrants an
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to the flows of goods, resources an
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migration and close to Huancayo) or
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In some cases, families would regul
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Furthermore, the precise compositio
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This suggests that, instead of aimi
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Brynes, D.M.2003 Driving the State:
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1984 Miners, Peasants and Entrepren
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Werbner, P.1990 The Migration Proce
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Genealogy 1: Jiménez Family in 197
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Since the 1990s, there has been a b
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migrant receiving areas, 2 but focu
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well as discussing some of the cons
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carried to Ghana by migrants. 40 pe
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Table 2. Cost (in Euro) of Formal a
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home countries, for example, throug
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These insurance events can constitu
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Having people collect similar data
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people they knew. In fact, some of
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For migration research, this means
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ReferencesAppadurai, A.1996 Moderni
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Glick Schiller, N., and G. Fouron19
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Marcus, G.1995 “Ethnography in/of
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Portes, A., and J. DeWind2004 “A
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Stark, O., and D. Bloom1985 “The
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AppendixTable A.1. Two-country Tran
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initially entails high costs and ri
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To our knowledge, no study has esti
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2.1 Remittances and Income in Rural
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with its neat correspondence to the
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let z > 0 denote the predetermined
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Table 3. Gini Decomposition by Inco
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Table 4b. Gini Decomposition by Inc
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3.2 Effects of Migrant Remittances
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4. ConclusionsOur findings using na
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Knowles, J.C., and R.B. Anker1981
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Taylor, J.E.1992 “Remittances and
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124Table 2. Rural Mexico Household
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Central Region45Percentage of Villa
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128Figure 3. Relationship between P
Page 133 and 134: 7Labor Market Flooding? Migrant Des
Page 135 and 136: Reibel (1997); David Card (2001); a
Page 137 and 138: The net immigration rate can be tak
Page 139 and 140: is S 0. It establishes an equilibri
Page 141 and 142: consequence a highly elastic supply
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Page 149 and 150: Figure 9. Total Net In-Migration an
Page 151 and 152: Figure 10. Dynamic Economy ModelFig
Page 153 and 154: 6. ConclusionThe dynamic and open e
Page 155 and 156: ReferencesAbowd, J.M., and R. Freem
Page 157 and 158: 1999 “Historical perspectives on
Page 159 and 160: Hatton, T., and J.G. Williamson1998
Page 161: White, M.J. and Y. Imai1994 “The
Page 164 and 165: seasonal basis, to areas with more
Page 166 and 167: for agricultural labor were 15 and
Page 168 and 169: 3. Why People MoveThe decision to m
Page 170 and 171: producers are facing heavy losses a
Page 172 and 173: in Mumbai, which capitalizes on peo
Page 174 and 175: In conclusion, migration can bring
Page 176 and 177: is also being experienced in many r
Page 178 and 179: ReferencesBal Kumar, K.C.2003 “Mi
Page 180 and 181: Lipton, M.1980 “Migration from ru
Page 182 and 183: Shylendra, H.S., and P. Thomas1995
Page 186 and 187: Majority of (ST)Baiga and Ghondsmig
Page 188 and 189: Single caste villageof (OBC) Dhimar
Page 191 and 192: 9A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Mi
Page 193 and 194: of households reported having at le
Page 195 and 196: Drawing on these perspectives, I ar
Page 197 and 198: migration tend to imitate the behav
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Page 201 and 202: ate of exchange and was thus sent t
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Page 207 and 208: The extended family constituted a c
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Page 215 and 216: perceived, the status-seeking activ
Page 217 and 218: Engelbrektsson, U.1978 The force of
Page 219 and 220: Parry, J. and M. Bloch1989 “Intro
Page 221 and 222: 10Migrant Workers’ Remittances an
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Page 225 and 226: husband and wife, four daughters an
Page 227 and 228: (Table 3). In the central and weste
Page 229 and 230: Table 5. Composition of Rural House
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of them deposit the money in a bank
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to train new rural migrants in the
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Figure 4. Per Capita Temittance in
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ReferencesBai Nansheng et al.2002
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Lu Mai et al.2002 “Zhongguo nongc
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Xinhuanet2002 “Woguo Zhongxibu la
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agriculture (Cook 1999), producing
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evenue (MR) minus the marginal cost
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Before reform, the annual quota of
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Table 2 Regional Distribution of In
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Figure 3. Sources of China’s Econ
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migration are removed, all wage and
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urban-biased policies persisted, pr
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eform. Under the hukou system, Chin
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The institutional barriers faced by
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ecause of the rapid migration of th
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Migrant workers have hardly any opp
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ReferencesAu, Chun-Chung, and Verno
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Lin, Justin, Gewei Wang, and Yaohui
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12International Migration and Devel
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2. BackgroundThe recent rise in int
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of remittances: self-employment, a
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Given the size of recent emigration
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5. Remittances: An OverviewTable 1
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interpret. Some of it may be caused
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8. A Decision to Repatriate MoneyIn
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emittances in the year prior to the
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fourth one, Xiamen, is in Fujian Pr
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ReferencesAdelman, I., J.E. Taylor,
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Massey, D.1988 “International mig
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AppendixTable 1. Village-Level Remi
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Table 4. Logistic Regression Models
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13Remittances in the Latin American
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to anti-money laundering and suspic
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Finally, mulas may be sporadic trav
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has left from countries in Western
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Table 2: Remittances and Key Econom
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Source: National Money Transmitters
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One way this redistributive effect
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Managua reported having a relative
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America have a higher rate of havin
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Table 9 Frequency of Immigrant Trav
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Guyana offers an interesting exampl
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In addition to exports of these goo
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Hemisphere. Figure 7 refers to the
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alternatives. Five years ago, it wa
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concentration is pronounced, innova
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emittance recipients have a higher
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AppendixData Methodology on Pricing
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Fagen, P., and M. Bump2005 “Remit
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2003 Receptores de remesas en Ecuad
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14A Framework for Linking and Compa
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to jobs, savings, and networks that
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were expanding. That “flooding”
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ural families to repay debts, satis
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ut case studies, including that of
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would do well to examine how variou
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Carter and Sutch challenge the argu
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networks combine internal and inter
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4. Policy ImplicationsWhat implicat
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government should improve migrant w
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challenge for development practitio
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community members could help to cla
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itself). While research and analysi
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