Arbeitspapier

Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants' assimilation?

Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; No. 170

Classification
Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
International Migration
Remittances
Subject
Assimilation of migrants
Acculturation identity
Links with the home country
Altruism
Remittances
Migranten
Soziale Integration
Rücküberweisung (Migranten)
Familie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Stark, Oded
Dorn, Agnieszka
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2012

DOI
doi:10.22004/ag.econ.133689
Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Stark, Oded
  • Dorn, Agnieszka
  • University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Time of origin

  • 2012

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