Immigration, remittances, and transnational social capital formation

A Cuban case study

Bibliographic Data

ID2150571
AuthorsSusan Eckstein (corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume33
Issue9
Pages1648-1667
Publication date2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419871003725410
OpenAlexW2085621464
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited31

Social capital takes on distinctive meaning in the context of large-scale immigration from poor to rich countries. In this article, characteristics of social capital embedded in transnational networks and norms, conditions conducive to the formation of such networks, and effects such networks have are extrapolated from an analysis of how and why cross-border relations among Cuban-Americans and Cubans in their homeland have changed since the 1959 Castro-led revolution. The transnational social capital generating benefit on which the study focuses is remittances. Remittances are of growing global importance to less developed countries, and in some countries they generate more revenue than foreign aid and foreign investment. The analysis addresses a range of unintended as well as intended consequences remittances may have

Capital (architecture · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Homeland · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Unintended consequences · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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