Abstract

PORTES, Alejandro  and  ZHOU, Min. El águila y el dragón: el papel de las organizaciones transnacionales de inmigrantes en China y México. Migr. desarro [online]. 2013, vol.11, n.20, pp.106-154. ISSN 1870-7599.

The literature on development in economics and sociology has tended to focus on capital flows, investments, and, more recently, institutions as key causal factors. Nor does it consider important developmental synergies produced by the rising interactions between immigrant organizations and sending-country governments. Using data from a recently completed comparative study, we document these processes for two major countries of out-migration: Mexico and China. The study compiled inventories of migrant organizations from both countries in the United States, interviewed leaders of the major ones, and complemented these data with interviews with officials and community leaders in each sending country. Profiles of these transnational ties were constructed, exemplifying their increasing density and developmental impact at the local and national levels.

Keywords : transnationalism; immigrant organizations; remittances; Mexican development; Chinese development.

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