Economic Integration to Send Money Back Home?

Ö. Bilgili

doi:10.1080/15562948.2015.1017630

Economic Integration to Send Money Back Home?

Ö. Bilgili^*

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Migration and Development

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Abstract

This article investigates the links between economic integration and remittances sending behavior through the cases of Afghan, Burundian, Ethiopian, and Moroccan first generation migrants in the Netherlands. The analysis demonstrates that economically-better-integrated migrants, especially those with secure employment, are significantly more likely to remit, remit more, and remit more for investment purposes rather than consumption. Consequently, I challenge the assimilationist perspective on the links between economic integration and homeland engagement, emphasize the significance of dual-engagement, and discuss the implications of this research for integration and development policy. © 2015, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	379-400
Number of pages	22
Journal	Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Volume	13
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2015.1017630
Publication status	Published - 2015

JEL classifications

o15 - "Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration"
f24 - Remittances
j61 - "Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers"

Keywords

economic integration
Economic remittances
immigrants
the Netherlands
transnationalism
African immigrant
Asian immigrant
employment
immigrant population
migrants remittance
research work
Netherlands

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year = "2015",

doi = "10.1080/15562948.2015.1017630",

language = "English",

volume = "13",

pages = "379--400",

journal = "Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies",

issn = "1556-2948",