... these stories, it has considered value forms, discursive categories, doctrines, everyday practices, and patterns of social relations around the Intipucá–Washington DC connection. The book has shown how Intipucá and other rural regions of El Salvador have become modern as a result of migration and remittances...

... time – from fear of loss of manpower (both labor- and soldier-power) to an encouragement of departure if it could be helpful to national stature abroad. Emigration, after all, could help spread one’s culture across borders and, importantly, result in remittances. But concerns about the loss...

... of sending remittances to take care of things there, they could start practicing here what they regarded as the most important form of citizenship in the civilized world. Consumption made them feel empowered, helping to mask the fact that they were care workers, destitute by Alpinetown standards. The chapter...

... million net new bills ever emitted by Congress—some 60 percent. The largest remittances occurred in 1781 and 1782. Remittances were near zero from 1783 through 1785. The states as a whole followed the 1779 redemption schedule set by Congress. Considerable variation in redemption across states was present...

...This chapter focuses on the period between the late 1970s and early 1990s, when El Salvador became increasingly oriented around remittances sent mostly by Salvadorans living and working in the Washington DC metropolitan area. It examines how migrant remittances changed from US dollars used to store...

...This chapter examines the collapse of the cotton and coffee export system in El Salvador in the 1980s amidst more than a decade of civil war, the U.S. direct aid to El Salvador, and how the millions of dollars in remittances sent home by Salvadorans living and working in the United States became...

... protected natural areas remittances second growth forests age classes of agricultural land abandonment land use biological legacies and Vietnam enriched fallow systems coffee growing areas forest regeneration Americas Puerto Rico drivers of forest regrowth socioecological processes socioeconomics...

...This chapter examines remittances as an economic transaction and social practice that links macro demographic change and institutional policies with local, individual material and spatial practices. An overview of the scope and scale of remitting, as well as an examination of Manuel Gamio and Paul...

...This chapter explores how remittances have altered existing power structures in rural Mexico by introducing new resources for financing public infrastructure. In some cases, migrant renovations of the main plaza (or jardín) have challenged the authority of the church...

.... It examines how and why El Salvador has shifted from growing and exporting high-quality coffee beans to sending remittances of more than two billion US dollars annually, courtesy of migrants living in the Washington DC, metropolitan area. Drawing from Karl Marx's approach to capitalist value determination...

...During the 1980s, the Washington DC metropolitan area was especially attractive to lenders of U.S. dollars and major U.S. banks that were seeking access to the regional money market. The largest Salvadoran banks began to consider how to move up the trail of remittances to obtain the U.S. dollars...

... paralleled by the flow of capital; money sent from migrants in the U.S. to families in their homelands—remittances—constitutes the largest remittance corridor in the world. Using remittances as a lens to both contribute to and critique contemporary migration discourse, this book unearths the spatial...