title: Social remittances: migration driven local-level forms of cultural diffusion.
abstract: "Many studies highlight the macro-level dissemination of global culture and institutions. This article focuses on social remittances--a local-level, migration-driven form of cultural diffusion. Social remittances are the ideas, behaviors, identities, and social capital that flow from receiving- to sending-country communities. The role that these resources play in promoting immigrant entrepreneurship, community and family formation, and political integration is widely acknowledged.  This article specifies how these same ideas and practices are remolded in receiving countries, the mechanisms by which they are sent back to sending communities, and the role they play in transforming sending-country social and political life." The data concern migrants from the Dominican Republic to the Boston area of the United States.
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authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Levitt
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000569:Americas; D017691:Caribbean Region; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004293:Dominican Republic; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005191:Family Characteristics; D007843:Latin America; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D009656:North America; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011287:Prejudice; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
keywords: Acculturation; Americas; Caribbean; Demographic Factors; Destination; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Dominican Republic; Economic Factors; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Immigrants; International Migration; Latin America; Marketing; Microeconomic Factors; Migrants; Migration; North America; Northern America; Origin; Political Factors; Population; Population Dynamics; Remittances; Segregation; Social Marketing; United States