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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"hometown associations"”.
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Empowering cooperation : Dominican hometown associations and the politics of transnational community development
This dissertation examines how three Dominican hometown associations (HTAs) define, negotiate and practice transnational community development, by carefully analyzing the processes through which state, migrants and non-migrant actors engage in "messy" local projects. I identify two interrelated …
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Migrant-Funded Development: The Influence of Mexican Hometown Associations on Development Indicators
… social networks are examined to explore possible associations between level of household development and migrants' designation of savings or remittances towards development-related purposes and whether remittances are positively affected by migrants' participation in a hometown association (HTA). …
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Il Mare Bianco di Mezzo. Valorizzazione dei Networks dei migranti per la circolazione delle conoscenze, delle capacità e delle trasformazioni sociali
… sulle associazioni degli immigrati e non solo Hometown Associations quali strumenti elaborati all’interno dei network di migranti per mettere in pratica le loro capacità di agente economico e di attore sociale nel processo di co-sviluppo dei paesi di provenienza e di destinazione. Infine, nel …
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Partnership, dependence and protest: The United States and El Salvador, seen through pockets of internationals
El Salvador is intimately connected to the United States, though most U.S. citizens may not realize it, even if they remember the days of El Salvador’s civil war. As it is for much of the world, the United States is for Salvadorans a promised land of plentiful work and peaceful lives. Unlike the …
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Partnership, dependence and protest: The United States and El Salvador, seen through pockets of internationals
El Salvador is intimately connected to the United States, though most U.S. citizens may not realize it, even if they remember the days of El Salvador’s civil war. As it is for much of the world, the United States is for Salvadorans a promised land of plentiful work and peaceful lives. Unlike the …