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A Slower Flow from Mexico?

While short-term changes in immigration flows are difficult to measure, several indicators suggest a possible slackening in migration from Mexico since mid- 2006. The Mexican-born population in the...

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Between Here and There: How Attached Do Latino Immigrants Remain to Their...

by Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles Summary Most Latino immigrants maintain some kind of connection to their native country by sending remittances, traveling back or telephoning...

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Hispanics and the Economic Downturn: Housing Woes and Remittance Cuts

by Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director, Gretchen Livingston, Senior Researcher, Rakesh Kochhar, Associate Director for Research, Pew Hispanic Center Like the U.S. population as a whole, Latinos are...

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Remittances to Latin America Recover—but Not to Mexico

Migrants’ remittances to Mexico, an estimated $22 billion in 2013, are below their 2006 peak. For all other Spanish-speaking Latin American nations, the 2013 estimate of $31.8 billion slightly...

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Changing Global Migration Patterns

More international migrants now live in high-income countries such as the U.S. and Germany, while more were born in middle-income nations such as India and Mexico. Migrants’ annual remittances have...

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Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2012

Track the flow of remittances—the money that many migrants send back to families in their countries of origin—related to patterns of global migration with this interactive map.

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Migrant remittances worldwide drop in 2015 for first time since Great Recession

Worldwide, an estimated $582 billion was sent by migrants to relatives in their home countries in 2015, a 2% decline from 2014.

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Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2016

Worldwide, an estimated $574 billion (USD) was sent by migrants to relatives in their home countries in 2016, a 1% decline from 2015, when the amount was $581 billion, according to economists at the...

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Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean sent a record amount of money...

Remittance flows decreased worldwide for a second consecutive year in 2016, the first back-to-back decline in over three decades. Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean, however, rose to a...

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Remittances from abroad are major economic assets for some developing countries

For five countries – Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Haiti, Tajikistan and Liberia – remittances from citizens abroad are equivalent to at least a quarter of GDP. The post Remittances from abroad are major economic...

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Between Here and There: How Attached Do Latino Immigrants Remain to Their...

Most maintain some kind of connection to their native country, but only one-in-ten can be considered to be highly attached. The post Between Here and There: How Attached Do Latino Immigrants Remain to...

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Hispanics and the Economic Downturn: Housing Woes and Remittance Cuts

Latinos, especially the foreign-born, are feeling the sting of the economic downturn and, in some respects, even more so than the general population. The post Hispanics and the Economic Downturn:...

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Remittances to Latin America Recover—but Not to Mexico

Migrants’ remittances to Mexico, an estimated $22 billion in 2013, are below their 2006 peak. For all other Spanish-speaking Latin American nations, the 2013 estimate of $31.8 billion slightly...

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Changing Global Migration Patterns

More international migrants now live in high-income countries such as the U.S. and Germany, while more were born in middle-income nations such as India and Mexico. Migrants’ annual remittances have...

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Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2012

Track the flow of remittances—the money that many migrants send back to families in their countries of origin—related to patterns of global migration with this interactive map. The post Remittance...

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Migrant remittances worldwide drop in 2015 for first time since Great Recession

Worldwide, an estimated $582 billion was sent by migrants to relatives in their home countries in 2015, a 2% decline from 2014. The post Migrant remittances worldwide drop in 2015 for first time since...

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Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean sent a record amount of money...

Remittance flows decreased worldwide for a second consecutive year in 2016, the first back-to-back decline in over three decades. Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean, however, rose to a...

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Remittances from abroad are major economic assets for some developing countries

For five countries – Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Haiti, Tajikistan and Liberia – remittances from citizens abroad are equivalent to at least a quarter of GDP. The post Remittances from abroad are major economic...

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Remittance flows worldwide in 2017

Worldwide, an estimated $625 billion (USD) was sent by migrants to individuals in their home countries in 2017, a 7% increase from 2016, when the amount was $586 billion, according to economists at the...

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Immigrants sent a record amount of money home to sub-Saharan African...

Money sent by immigrants to their home countries in sub-Saharan Africa reached a record $41 billion in 2017. The post Immigrants sent a record amount of money home to sub-Saharan African countries in...

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