Effects of emigration and return on sending countries : the case of Colombia
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 453-467
ISSN: 0020-8701
Without doubt Colombian international labour migration has had a vital importance for the family economy of lower-income groups. Nevertheless, the economic impact has been in the short rather than in the long term, establishing a pattern of dependence, the sudden withdrawel of which can have extremely harmful effects