Abstract : The paper intends to look back at how remittances sent by international migrants worldwide have become important for development in the last
30 years. The global economic crisis has made migration & remittances an issue for many developing countries. The data for 2009 show that remittance flows to developing countries have been remarkably resilient, while debt flows collapsed & FDI declined by a third. Migrants seem willing to wait out the crisis as prospects at home are often even worse. The paper intends to give an overview of crisis, migration and remittances in different world regions in the global era based on data from the World Bank, the International Organization for Migration & the International Labor Organization.
Ulrike Schuerkens. Crisis, Migration, and Remittances in a Global Era. XVII Congrès mondial de Sociologie de l'ISA, Association Internationale de Sociologie, Jul 2010, Göteborg, Sweden. ⟨hal-01833401⟩