, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances … norms. To introduce a special issue of World Development on migration and development, we present a selection of frontier …

transformation of advanced economies, the remittances migrants send home have been touted as the most promising means of national … and social evidence demonstrates that remittances deepen economic exploitation, unravel societal stability, and … control and marginalize low-wage migrant workers, especially women and youth. Ness asserts that remittances do not bring …