Understanding Institutionalized Collective Remittances
Carlos Gustavo Villela
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Carlos Gustavo Villela, Understanding Institutionalized Collective Remittances (2014), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832595654
Beschreibung / Abstract
This book considers the activities of migrant organizations in the face of state diaspora engagement policies in their members' countries of origin. The case study is the Programa Tres por Uno para los Migrantes in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. The research uses events - understood as festivities and work meetings - as lenses. They offer a door to access the actors' reality and furthermore serve as an object of analysis themselves. The study combines analysis of biographical interviews at the microlevel with that of organizations' work meetings at the mesolevel and the analysis of the staging in public events as way to access the macrolevel. The work concludes that institutionalizing collective remittances enhances the capital- skills (cultural capital), relations (social capital) and economic resources (economic capital)- generated by lives and practices taking place in a transnational way. The work proposes the term diasporic capital. Diasporic capital creates the identity of and nurtures the belonging to a distinct class. As a result, migrant organizations participating in the Tres por Uno Program are given legitimacy to speak in the name of all the nationals living abroad and their leaders to claim a higher social status.
Carlos Villela obtained a PhD in International Development Studies (Summa Cum Laude) and a MA in Development Management by the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He also holds a Magister Administrationis from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and a BA in Business Management from the Universidad Tecnolà³gica Centroamericana in Honduras. Dr. Villela has worked for governmental organizations and international cooperation organizations in Honduras, Germany and Myanmar
Carlos Villela obtained a PhD in International Development Studies (Summa Cum Laude) and a MA in Development Management by the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He also holds a Magister Administrationis from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and a BA in Business Management from the Universidad Tecnolà³gica Centroamericana in Honduras. Dr. Villela has worked for governmental organizations and international cooperation organizations in Honduras, Germany and Myanmar
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- INTRODUCTION
- The Global Agenda: Migration-Development-Diaspora
- From Pochos to Heroes
- The Binational State of Zacateca
- Federations of Zacatecan Clubs: Demand Changes or receive Rewards?
- LITERATURE & METHODOLOGY
- 1. LIVES AND STATES ACROSS BORDERS
- 1.1 The Academic Response: Transnationalism
- 1.2 The Southern Response: States discover Diaspora
- 2. INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING TO EXPLAIN
- 2.1 Social Reality is meaningfully constructed
- 2.2 Principles of an Interpretive Research
- 3. RESEARCH†™S GOAL AND DESIGN
- Methodological Design
- Methodological Design at each Level of Analysis
- 4. METHODS
- 4.1 Reconstructing: Discovering -Testing Hypotheses Sequentially
- 4.2 Reconstruction of Biographies
- 4.3 Reconstruction of Interactions at Work Meetings
- 4.4 Reconstruction of the Public Presentation at Festivities
- 5. REFLECTING ON THE RESEARCH†™S PROCESS
- 5.1 Accessing the Field and Following up
- 5.2 Decisions taken along the Way
- 5.3 The Researcher†™s Position: A Close Outsider learning
- EMPIRICAL RESULTS
- 6. AN AMERICAN DREAM BECOMING A MEXICAN DREAM
- 6.1 The Story of a Talented One
- 6.2 The Story of a Responsible Family Man
- 6.3 Belonging Where and for What?
- 7. FEDERATION OF CLUBS CONSTRUCT BRIDGES
- 7.1 Federation of Zacatecan Clubs†™ Path. Present Implications
- 7.2 The Play of Power in a Federation of Zacatecan Clubs
- 7.3 The Construction of Bridges in Tres por Uno
- 8. OUR DEVELOPMENT PATH AND THE TRES POR UNO
- 8.1 Dia del Zacatecano. A Zacatecan State Reception in LA?
- 8.2 Where we stand and What We want. Address to the Public
- 8.3 “Vamos Escalando, Vamos Ganando el Respeto†
- 8.4 A Proud Better Zacatecan. Drawing Identity- nurturing Belonging
- 8.5 We speak on behalf of the Zacatecan Nation in the US
- CONCLUSIONS
- 9. A DIALOGUE WITH THE ACTORS
- 9.1 Using Events as Lenses to reconstruct
- 9.2 The Red Line: Status and Legitimacy. A Diasporic Capital
- 9.3 Value of an Interpretive Analysis of Collective Remittances
- 9.4 What Music will be played at the Dia del Zacatecano?
- AFTERWORD
- APPENDIX
- A.1 Overview of the State of Zacatecas
- A.2 Tres por Uno Projects in Zacatecas (2004-2012)
- A.3 Procedure to apply for a Tres por Uno Project
- A.4 Transcription Rules
- A.5 Chronology of Juan Diaz†™s Life History
- A.6 Chronology of Pedro Perez†™s Life History
- A.7 Chronology of the FCZSC
- A.8 Positions in the Board of a Federation of Clubs
- A.9 Program Dia del Zacatecano Gala of the FCZSC 2010
- A.10 Sketch Dia del Zacatecano Gala of the FCZSC 2010
- A.11 Discurso del Presidente de la FCZSC Dia del Zacatecano 2010
- A.12 Speech of the President of the FCZSC Dia del Zacatecano 2010
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Secondary Sources
- List of Events attended
- Summarized List of Interview Partners
- List of Sources on Historical Events of the FCZSC