List of Tables and Figures viii
Preface xi
1. Immigrants from Developing Countries: An Overview of Their Homeland Impacts / Susan Eckstein 1
2. Migration and Development: Reconciling Opposite Views / Alejandro Portes 30
3. How Overseas Chinese Spurred the Economic "Miracle" in Their Homeland / Min Ye 52
4. Immigrants' Globalization of the Indian Economy / Kyle Eischen 75
5. How Cuban Americans Are Unwittingly Transforming Their Homeland / Susan Eckstein 92
6. Immigrant Impacts in Mexico: A Tale of Dissimilation / David Scott Fitzgerald 114
7. "Turks Abroad" Redefine Turkish Nationalism / Riva Kastoryano 138
8. Moroccan Migrants as Unlikely Captains of Industry: Remittances, Financial Intermediation, and La Banque Centrale Populaire / Natasha Iskander 156
9. The Gender Revolution in the Philippines: Migrant Mothering and Social Transformations / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas 191
10. Beyond Social Remittances: Migration and Transnational Gangs in Central America / José Miguel Cruz 213
11. Economic Uncertainties, Social Strains, and HIV Risks: The Effects of Male Labor Migration on Rural Women in Mozambique / Victor Agadjanian, Cecilia Menjívar, and Boaventura Cau 234
Contributors 253
Index 257