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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands
• Author: Susan Eckstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9780822353959
• ISBN: 0822353954
• ID: 01287391
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 407 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. April 2013

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