Family and Collective Remittances to Mexico: A Multi-dimensional Typology

The development potential of remittances has resurfaced as a topic of analysis, based in part on dramatic increases in migration and amounts of money ‘sent home’, and partly in the growing interest and involvement by states and non‐state actors in gaining leverage over remittances. The trend is indi...

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Family
Family relations
Financial Support
Government policy
Income
Investment
Mexico
Migrant Workers
Migration
Money
Payments
Political rights
Remittances
Social networks
Transfer
Typology
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