How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands

How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become agents of homeland development. The essays that follow focus on the varied impacts immigrants have had in China, India, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Mozambique, and Turkey. One contributor examines the role Indians who worked in Silicon Valley played in shaping the structure, successes, and continued evolution of India's IT industry. Another traces how Salvadoran immigrants extend U.S. gangs and their brutal violence to El Salvador and neighboring countries. The tragic situation in Mozambique of economically desperate emigres who travel to South Africa to work, contract HIV while there, and infect their wives upon their return is the subject of another essay. Taken together, the essays show the multiple ways countries are affected by immigration. Understanding these effects will provide a foundation for future policy reforms in ways that will strengthen the positive and minimize the negative effects of the current mobile world.

Contributors. Victor Agadjanian, Boaventura Cau, Jose Miguel Cruz, Susan Eva Eckstein, Kyle Eischen, David Scott FitzGerald, Natasha Iskander, Riva Kastoryano, Cecilia Menjivar, Adil Najam, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Alejandro Portes, Min Ye

“"[T]his book will appeal to students interested in populations, labour markets, and the everyday realities of migration.... This is a rich area for investigation."”

"Despite the breathless attention focused on how immigrants affect countries of destination, their influence on countries of origin is often more profound. Susan Eckstein and Adil Najam offer a welcome corrective to this one-sidedness and move beyond the cliched notions of both left and right. Drawing on work by the world's leading scholars of immigration, they reveal international migration to be neither a panacea nor a curse, but a basic component of globalization that can be turned to good or ill depending on decisions taken in sending and receiving nations and the actions of immigrants themselves. This collection is essential reading for those wishing to move beyond ideology and develop a fuller understanding of the place of international migration in the world today." - Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University "In a welcome look at the flip side of immigration, How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands shows how emigration is not as simple as it looks. This book is an important reminder that economic and cultural remittances affect the home country for better or for worse, from needed investments to new models of behavior - mimicked or mocked - to AIDS." - Nancy L. Green, coeditor of Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation "How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands, edited by Susan Eckstein and Adil Najam, reveals the many and varied disadvantages of migration for the migrant's country of origin. This is a welcome and useful corrective to the previously propagated rosy picture." - Jeannette Money, H-Diplo, September 2013

Susan Eva Eckstein is Professor of Sociology and International Relations at Boston University. Her many books include The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. and Their Homeland, as well as What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America and Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America (both coedited with Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley). Adil Najam is Vice Chancellor at Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, and Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University. He is the author of Portrait of a Giving Community: Philanthropy by the Pakistani-American Diaspora, coauthor of Global Environmental Governance: A Reform Agenda, and editor of Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia.

Adil Najam is Vice Chancellor at Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan and Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment at Boston University. He is the author of Portrait of a Giving Community: Philanthropy by the Pakistani-American Diaspora; co-author of Global Environmental Governance: A Reform Agenda, and editor of Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia.

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