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Outsourcing Welfare

How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries

By (author) Roy Germano
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, United States
Published: 10th May 2018
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 14mm
Weight: 515g
ISBN-10: 019086284X
ISBN-13: 9780190862848
Barcode No: 9780190862848
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Rising food prices, climate change, and the ravages of global capitalism have made the poor increasingly vulnerable to economic crises. At the same time, the governments of many developing countries have adopted austerity measures that leave their citizens without a safety net in times of need. This combination poses a potent threat to social and political stability throughout the developing world. How do the poor cope with economic crises when their governments fail to guarantee social welfare? How do societies keep from fracturing under the weight of economic grievances and civil unrest? Outsourcing Welfare argues that the answers to these questions lie with remittances, the hundreds of billions of dollars that international migrants send to their home countries. Remittances are a leading source of income in dozens of developing economies and a critical lifeline that millions of families use to pay for food, healthcare, clothing, and other basics. In the absence of adequate government social protections, remittances insulate poor families from the full pain of economic crises, and in doing so, reduce the severity of grievances that fuel populist anger, civil unrest, and political instability. Through stories from his fieldwork in Mexico and Central America and analyses of data from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, Roy Germano shows how remittances buffer economic shocks, contribute to economic optimism, and dampen the threat of popular discontent during economic crises. Germano argues that remittances perform a social, economic, and political function that is strikingly similar to social spending, and that counting on people to migrate and send money home has become a de facto social welfare policy in many developing countries.

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This illuminating book addresses an important but often overlooked consequence of international migration: remittances sent by immigrants to relatives in their countries of origin. * Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs * a must-read for anyone whowishes to understand better the trends and complexities of remittance receipt forindividuals,communities, and nations. * Latin American Politics and Society * This highly teachable book can add important conversations to undergraduate and graduate courses on migration, the sociology of development, globalization, transnationalism, and the sociology of the family. The study's methodology is highly instructive for students interested in mixed methods and those who aim to work on projects with a macrostructural analysis of migrant money. * Hung Can Thai, Contemporary Sociology * "In the present political climate, it is difficult not to read Roy Germanoas book as a warning. With the rise in nationalistic rhetoric in some wealthy democracies focused on erecting barriers to migration, Outsourcing Welfare points to the serious harm that building walls may cause to people living in poorer states." - Michael Tyburski, Perspectives on Politics