In 2011, Colombian organizations put together events to help the estimated two million people affected by the heavy rains that fell in various regions of Colombia the previous year and which caused slides, inundations, etc. In the greater New York area, they organized events such as a...

The Moroccan is one of the largest migration groups in France, whose presence in France dates back from the early 20th century (De Haas 2005). In contrast with other North African states, Morocco has made emigration a key tool of its development policy. Against this backdrop, Moroccan...

Over the past three decades, immigrant transnational organizations in the United States have proliferated with accelerated international migration and the rise of new transportation and communication technologies that facilitate long-distance and cross-border ties. Their impact and influence...

Globalization is commonly assumed to have important implications for development processes, including opportunities for poverty alleviation. Globalization connects people and places that are distant in space but linked in such ways that what happens in one place has direct bearing on the other...

The massive historic protests in 2006 against anti-immigrant legislation in the United States have sparked renewed interest in immigrant community mobilization. Analysts have turned to Mexican immigrants in particular, not in the least because Mexicans represent the largest immigrant group in...

As in the field of transnational studies at the international level, research in Belgium has been for quite a long time only of a qualitative nature. Also, the focus has been mainly on the transnational activities of three specific migrant groups: Moroccans, Turks and Congolese (Bousetta &...

Spain has eased the irruption of migrant organizations in a remarkable short period of time. Migrant associations have had, and still have, a distinguished position vis à vis public authorities in designing and influencing the definition of integration policies. Integration plans in Spain have...

According to the Government of India, there are over 20 million people of Indian origin living outside India (GOI 2000). They live in nearly every country of the world, and they span the spectrum of class, profession, and history—ranging from 5th generation descendants of indentured servants...

This paper offers the results of the first comprehensive study on Nicaraguan immigrant organizations in Miami Dade County.1 It identifies a total of eighty one Nicaraguan immigrant organizations which have been founded in different periods since 1980s and focuses on forty organizations which are...

This paper examines determinants of aspirations and expectations among children of immigrants based on a statistically representative sample of 3,375 second generation youths interviewed in 101 public and private secondary schools in metropolitan Madrid. We review the past literature on status...