SOC110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Little Havana, Cuban Americans, Thomas Wolfe
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Many immigrants remain strongly attached to the country they left behind. For some cases they remain deeply active for their homelands with organizations. To demonstrate, many pakistani immigrants in bradford, england, rely on. Pakistani networks to arrange marriages with pakistanis native to their british- born children. The married couple then move to bradford to stay and work. According to one british analyst, "the immigrants live with one foot in pakistan" The mexican immigrants nevertheless manage to remit an average of around . Working next to those from the same hometown, they pool funds to help construct. Mexico"s federal government services suit immigrant remittances, peso for peso, By 2002, these remittances amounted to more than billion and had become. Despite strong attachments to former homelands, it is not surprising that a. Mexico"s third largest source of income to the public works significant percentage of immigrants eventually seek to return, and some do, but typically not in large numbers.
