Social networks, kinship, and religion play a key role in the decision to migrate, and in determining migration journeys and return. This includes the role of family members in host countries, who may encourage prospective migrants through remittances and information. Migrants proactively seek...

This paper have presented the kernel of the migration literature on remittances. It started from their three most debated features: stability, cyclicality and sustainability. Then moved to the motives driving remittances and, finally, their relationship with development. Both sustainability and...

The aim of this article is to present in a complete way the kernel of such a production. People migrate and this decision is sometimes permanent, but there are links with the country of origin that stand up to time and distances. With respect to this, the so called economic diaspora well depicts...