title: Economic and political restructuring and the sustainability of migrant remittances:  the case of Western Samoa.
abstract: This study examines the importance of remittances from emigrants to the economies of Pacific island states.  The author considers two basic questions:  "Are there enough island-born or island-linked people in the labor forces of industrialized countries to generate a given level of remittances to the island states?...[and] Will those who are able to sustain the flow be willing to?  In this paper I examine the case of remittance flows between New Zealand and Western Samoa."
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Macpherson
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D009520:New Zealand; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011114:Polynesia; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D018947:Samoa; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Emigrants; International Migration; Microeconomic Factors; Micronesia-polynesia; Migrants; Migration; New Zealand; Oceania; Polynesia; Population; Population Dynamics; Remittances; Samoa