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The state and the grassroots : immigrant transnational organizations in four continents / edited by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernández-Kelly.

Other author/creatorPortes, Alejandro, 1944-
Other author/creatorFernández-Kelly, María Patricia, 1948-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Descriptionxiv, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Contents Immigration, transnationalism, and development : the state of the question / Alejandro Portes -- Traversing ancestral and new homelands : Chinese immigrant-transnational organizations in the United States / Min Zhou and Rennie Lee -- Transnational philanthropy of urban migrants : Colombian and Dominican -- Immigrant organizations and development / Cristina Escobar -- Tapping the Indian diaspora for Indian development / Rina Agarwala -- Partners in organizing : engagement between migrants and the state in the production of Mexican hometown associations / Natasha Iskander -- Navigating uneven development : the dynamics of fractured transnationalism / Margarita Rodríguez -- Breaking blocked transnationalism : intergenerational change in homeland ties / Jennifer Huynh and Jessica Yiu -- Moroccan and Congolese migrant organizations in Belgium / Marie Godin, Barbara Herman, Andrea Rea, and Rebecca Thys -- Moroccans in France : their organizations and activities back home / Thomas Lacroix and Antoine Dumont -- Transnational activities of immigrants in the netherlands : do Ghanaian, Moroccan, and Surinamese diaspora organizations enhance development? / Gery Nijenhuis and Annelies Zoomers -- Transnational immigrant organizations in Spain : their role in development and integration / Héctor Cebolla Boado and Ana López-Sala -- Conclusion. assimilation through transnationalism : a theoretical synthesis / Patricia Fernández-Kelly.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014039966
ISBN9781782387343 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9781785334405 (paperback : alk. paper)

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