Search Results for remittances

... transfer organizations. The explanatory argument returns to the puzzles. I argue that, without any signal from OFAC, which was the signal, and reflecting OFAC’s regulatory domination, when the Taliban took Kabul, the international financial community, humanitarian aid organizations, and remittance...

... array of policies range from creating new ministries for diaspora affairs, reserving seats in the national legislature, and granting dual citizenship to allowing members of the diaspora to participate in domestic elections and establishing special economic programs aimed at facilitating remittances...

... critical scholars interested in pursuing and extending similar research. De Goede argues that the stopping or banning of certain types of money flows (for example, donations to Islamic charities, informal remittances) leads to a related practice in which other types of flows (for example, those deemed...

... as remittances. In fact, the evidence is clear that US employers and contractors of guest workers recruit a range of workers, from unskilled to professional, and select guest workers based on competence and degree of individual submissiveness. Most expediently, US corporations and global financial institutions...

..., we call for high quality papers presenting cuttlng-edge research across areas of study (humanitarian interventions. disaster reiter, charity, remittances. philanthropy, development aid. communications. and CSR, among others) on three dimensions of everyday humanitarianism: pro(essionalisation...

... of their property claims and dispersal of US-inspired neoliberal ideology within Cuba?l In early 2009, President Obama lifted the C.W. Bush administration's bans on family travel and remittances to Cuba, which will increase the influx of dollars to the island, and increase the power of these external forces, while...

... research across areas of study (humanitarian interventions, disaster relief, charity, remittances, philanthropy, development aid, communications, and CSR, among others) on three dimensions of everyday humanitarianism: professionalization, commodification, and mediatization. Professionalization refers...

... only cursorily. Maliha Safri and Julie Graham use Chapter 10's conclusion to briefly discuss the potential for a global politics of household remittances, and Safri uses Chapter 12's conclusion to reflect even more briefly on two activist groups' use of community economy maps to demand social justice...

... that there are alternative ways of conceptualizing what RDOs do. For example, one could describe these practices in terms of collective remittances or as diaspora philanthropy. However, for the purposes of contributing to debates about the practices, beliefs, and implications of "everyday humanitarianism," there is value...

... of counterterrorism financing is not to cut off money flows to (potential) terrorists. The objective is to enable preemptive intervention in the spaces of everyday life, including charitable donation, migrants' remittances, and everyday banking" (p. 187). As such, security is speculative as actions and processes...

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... they suffered great decline in @310 BOOK REVIEWS the decades after post-communist Romania). Only toward the end of the book does he mention people who "vote with theirfeet;'that is, migrate elsewhere in Europe and send remittances, even though Romania achieved the dubious distinction of the EU member state...

.... 1-2. 350 Walt Vanderbush remittances were also enacted by the Bush administration following the CAFC recommendations-money could only be sent to members of one's immediate family, with a continuing of the $300 limit for every three months. While the US government was limiting the ability of private...

... and undermined development. Now, stunningly corrupt warlords-like Rashid Dostum, Abu Sayaff, and Mohammad Mohaqeq-bathe in the flow of drug lucre and aid money. As a result, Afghanistan is totally dependent on foreign aid, opium poppy cultivation, and remittances sent home by the five million Afghans living...

...) and a major proportion of them consist of "forced migrants fleeing genocide, political persecution or economic catastrophe" caused by capitalist imperialism (p. 265). These workers, many of them illegal, are important agents of redistribution. Their remittances are estimated at $80 billion, "considerably more...

... is responsive to the cultural values of their ethnic community, works to supplant citizenship via the state.24 Rather, CBOs meet the practical needs of the Filipino community that is both localized (applications to housing and benefits) and transnational (remittances, sustained political activity, continued...

... daughter is 18. They're grown now78 Despite these uncertainties, caregivers continue to support their families through remittances and maintain hope in bringing them to Canada. Although their right to family reunification is not guaranteed by the state, through naming themselves as "sponsors/' migrant...

... (Rowman and Littlefield). He served for many years as Co-Editor of the journal Globalizations. His current research centers on international migration, particularly issues of state-initiated migration policies for remittance generation, policy responses to brain-drain, and medical migration. ...

... higher remittances) likely to flow from TLC provide a powerful incentive for the Mexican government to coordinate recruitment of transnational labour citizens just as it currently coordinates recruitment for guest worker schemes with 41 Ibid., pp. 567-568. 42 Ibid., p. 570. Contesting Citizenship 179...

... it lacks a large commercial and industrial base. Under the throes of increasing costs of living, however, it has come to depend upon a huge amount of remittances from Keralans working abroad. In short, Kerala too is being sucked into the remorseless engine of globalization. 186 William H. Thornton...