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A Transnational Asset Accumulation Framework for Researching Latin American Migration

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Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans

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Abstract

This chapter outlines a framework of transnational asset accumulation and assesses its relevance for research with Latin American migrants in Europe. The framework differentiates between a transnational asset index as a conceptual approach for the diagnosis of the assets of migrants, and transnational asset accumulation policy as an operational tool for designing and implementing sustainable transnational asset accumulation interventions. The chapter draws on earlier work on asset accumulation policy (see Moser 2007, 2008, 2010), as well as asset-focused transnational migration studies (Orozco 2007; Cordero-Guzman and Quiroz-Becerra 2007; Gammage 2007) and adapts these to create a framework specifically relevant to transnational migrants. It focuses on both well-known tangible assets such as human, financial, natural, and productive capital as well as intangible assets such as household and community social capital, as well as civic and political capital relating to such issues as citizens’ rights, democratic development, and institutional accountability.

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  1. University of London, UK

    Cathy McIlwaine (Reader in Human Geography at Queen Mary) (Reader in Human Geography at Queen Mary)

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Moser, C. (2011). A Transnational Asset Accumulation Framework for Researching Latin American Migration. In: McIlwaine, C. (eds) Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137001887_3

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