Mexican Hometown Associations and Development Opportunities

By M. Orozco, Michelle Lapointe. 2004

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Investing in Peace: The Motivational Dynamics of Diaspora Investment in Post-Conflict Economies (2009, background): “While some percentage of these remittances is invested in business-developmentrelated activities, such as family-owned businesses, the bulk of remittances are spent on consumption (Orozco, 2004).”
Does migration promote democratization? Evidence from the Mexican transition (2012, background): “Orozco and Lapointe (2004) argue that “HTAs play an important role in transforming political culture and 3In this context Greene (2007) identifies “five types of illict public resources that they politicize for partisan purposes” (italics in original,pg.40). local politics” and that “The work of…”
Migration Remittances and Development: A Review of Global Evidence (2006, background): “5 The estimates were taken from the Growing Global Migration and Its Implications for the United States, NIE 2001-02D, National Foreign Intelligence Board.”
International Migration and the Developing World (2010, background): “See Lapointe and Orozco (2004) also on Mexican hometown associations in the United States and Caglar (2006) on Turkish hometown associations in Germany.”
Do Migrants Improve Their Hometowns? Remittances and Access to Public Services in Mexico, 1995-2000 (2011, background): “See Orozco and Lapointe (2004), Alarcon (2002), Goldring (2002), and Leiken (2000).”