Refugee Remittances: Conceptual Issues and the Cuban and Nicaraguan Experiences

Díaz-Briquets, Sergio; Pérez‐López, Jorge F.

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“…In spite of the united front displayed by Cuban exile leaders in their discourse about the island, there exists a range of opinions about expanding relationships with Cuba (Castro 1997;Pérez 1992). There is also great differentiation in the degree to which the Cuban émigrés comply with exile leaders' admonitions to ban travel and remittances to the island, often cited by detractors as an important deterrent for sending remittances to Cuba (Betancourt 2000;Díaz-Briquets and Pérez-López 1997). While only a small percentage of Cuban Americans participate in exile political organizations, tens of thousands have visited relatives in Cuba and even more send money or goods #1055-ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY-VOL.…”

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“…Since the early 1990s, there has been a significant increase in the flow of remittances to Cuba. In the few scholarly attempts to examine and quantify this flow of money to Cuba, the focus has been on the size of the migrant population, their wages, and their status as political refugees as determinants of remittances (Díaz-Briquets 1995;Díaz-Briquets and Pérez-López 1997). The research presented here extends that work by examining economic crisis in the sending country, the migrant's gender, and the closeness of family relationships as potential determinants of Cuba's inflow of remittances.…”

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State Policy, Economic Crisis, Gender, and Family Ties: Determinants of Family Remittances to Cuba

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2004

Economic Geography

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This article advances the argument that changing economic conditions in the home country act as an important determinant for sending remittances. Research on the determinants of remittances has tended to focus on the characteristics of the sending population. In the case of Cuba, disproportionate attention is paid to political disincentives to send remittances and not enough to changing state policy and the growing economic demand for remittances in that country. Using empirical data gathered from households in Havana, this article tests the importance of economic conditions in the home country, political ideology, the relationship of the sender to the receiver, the length of time away from home, and gender as determinants for remittances. Migration during an economic crisis, having immediate relatives in the home country, and female gender positively influenced remittance behavior for Cuban emigrants. Visits to the home country, especially for migrants who had left decades earlier, were found to be critical for reestablishing family connections and increasing remittances. No support was found for political disincentives as a major determinant of remittance sending to Cuba.

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State Policy, Economic Crisis, Gender, and Family Ties: Determinants of Family Remittances to Cuba

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2004

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“…Besides such practical reasons refugees might fear to perform any kind of transnational behaviour due to the threat of personal persecution (Mascini et al 2012). Moreover, their perception of and identification with the home country might be distorted due to the ruling regime; therefore they might no longer want to be involved with the origin country (Díaz-Briquets and Péréz-López, 1997).…”

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In Exile and in Touch

Bakker

Engbersen

Dagevos

2014

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Studying transnational behaviour, i.e. interactions between the sending and receiving countries of international migrants, is especially interesting for refugees given their migration motive and history. Due to the flight, resources are lost and returning to the home country is often not an option; both are factors that might limit transnational behaviour. The central aim of this study is to explain the patterns of transnational behaviour for refugee groups in relation to their integration process. For this we use a large scale dataset (N=3950) which contains information on Somali, Iranian, Iraqi and Afghani refugees in the Netherlands. Along the lines of the 'resource dependent' thesis the analyses show that individual capacities, such as employment and Dutch nationality, are of major importance in explaining transnational activities of refugees. Second, this paper shows that the economic and social situation in the origin country should be taken into account for understanding the differences in transnational activities among refugee groups.

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“…A number of other studies also show the important role of existing state institutions in a country, through which countries can benefit from migration processes and have a positive effect on poverty reduction and income growth in the country of origin. Thus, studies conducted at different times by foreign authors for individual countries recorded such a relationship through the following simplified mechanism of state regulation of migration processes: "labour migrants → remittances → consumption growth → production growth → economic growth" [16,[18][19][20].…”

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Inclusive Growth and International Labour Migration

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Тухтарова

Neklyudova

2021

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This contribution presents the results of an econometric analysis of the interconnections between migration, economic diversification, the quality of state institutions and other qualitative characteristics of economic growth that have developed in developing countries of the world over the past two decades. The study highlighted the most important factors that contribute to the creation of conditions and prerequisites for the inclusive development of the economy. The analysis showed that among other factors, the most important are the quality of state institutions, technological development, which creates the conditions for investing in human capital. The study also made it possible to determine thresholds for these factors as guidelines for the transition of the CIS countries to the inclusive development of their economies and to limit disordered labour migration. Another important result of the study is the fact that large-scale and poorly controlled migration is acting like a brake on the sustainable development of the whole post-Soviet space. To overcome this process, it is necessary to create large-scale joint integration, knowledge-based and technological projects that will not only reduce the scale of migration to Russia, but also contribute to increasing human capital in the CIS countries and to the creation of knowledge-based jobs in their labour markets.

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Refugee Remittances: Conceptual Issues and the Cuban and Nicaraguan Experiences

Cited by 39 publications

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State Policy, Economic Crisis, Gender, and Family Ties: Determinants of Family Remittances to Cuba

State Policy, Economic Crisis, Gender, and Family Ties: Determinants of Family Remittances to Cuba

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