Aspectos Economicos del Vivir Transnacional.

Abstract

The economic relations of migrants with their home countries have been the object of significant, albeit fragmented, multidisciplinary research. However, the majority of studies have been concerned primarily with the north-south flow of economic remittances that migrants send to their places of origin. This article, making use of a transnational perspective informed by the principles of economic sociology, argues that the north-south focus on monetary transfers is extremely limited, given that it fails to consider the multiple macroeconomic effects of migrants' economic and non-economic transnational connections, underestimating migrant activities and their influence at the global level. The author uses the concept of transnational living to present a new framework for understanding transnational migration that challenges accepted notions concerning the relation between labor and capital mobility