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Flores reflects on cultural remittances. Among other things, whether in the luggage of exiles or emigrants returning to visit or stay, or in the stories and experiences recounted by friends and family, Diaspora carry and send back more than money and material goods. Ideas, values, political causes, cultural styles, and preferences all make their way from Diaspora to homeland settings.
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The Diaspora Strikes Back: Reflections On Cultural Remittances
COUNTRIES LIKE PUERTO RICO, MEXICO and the Dominican Republic with huge diaspora populations in the United States are having a hard time digesting their return migrants. These nations and others are facing the many challenges posed by contemporary transnational communities and cultural flows. Widespread patterns of circular migration and multiple new forms of cultural transmission and diffusion exert a complex and often unsettling effect on life in home countries, beginning of course with economic realities at individual and collective levels. The immense scale and dramatic significance of cash remittances have been amply documented and analyzed, especially since they have come to make up preponderant shares of entire national economies in many countries.
Whether in the luggage of exiles or emigrants returning to visit or stay, or in the stories and experiences recounted by friends and family, diasporas carry and send back more, however, than money and material goods. Ideas, values, political causes, cultural styles and preferences all make their way from diaspora to ho...See the full content of this document
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