SOC110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Little Havana, Cuban Americans, Thomas Wolfe
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Most immigrants remain strongly attached to their country. For some cases they remain with organizations profoundly involved for their. To prove this, many pakistani immigrants in bradford, england, depend on homelands. Pakistani networks to arrange marriages to their british-born children with. The married couple then go on to stay and work in bradford. "immigrants live with one foot in pakistan," according to one british writer. Nevertheless, mexican immigrants manage to remit an average of about a. Working alongside those from the same city, they are pooling funds to help build. Mexico"s federal government programs suit immigrant remittances to the public. By 2002, these remittances amounted to more than billion and had become. Despite strong attachments to former homelands, it is not surprising that a small. Mexico"s third largest source of income works, peso for peso percentage of immigrants would eventually try to return, and some do, but usually not in large numbers.
