Migration, Development and Children Left Behind

Rodolfo de la Garza and Rodolfo
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Rodolfo: Division of Policy and Practice,UNICEF File URL:http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/files/Postscript_Formatted__Migration_Development_and_Children_Left_Behind.pdf

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Abstract: This report examines the relationship between migration and development from a multi-faceted perspective. It draws on original field research and an extensive review of scholarly and policy studies to examine how migration affects a society’s economic, social, political and cultural characteristics. This results in an analysis that encompasses the multi-layered impact of migration, i.e., its effect on the individual, the family and the sending community. Among the key arguments for adopting this approach is that conventional analyses that focus on economic factors such as remittances to the virtual exclusion of others greatly over-estimate the gains resulting from emigration and under-value the costs emigration imposes on the overall well-being of families left behind, and on sending communities in general.

Keywords: migration; multi-layered impact of migration; remittances; exclusion; Children Left Behind; Development . (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2010
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