Insurance and remittances: New evidence from Latin American immigrants to the US

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
BHARATI BASU ◽  
JAMES T. BANG
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Destination Country ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
Predicted Probability ◽  
The Us ◽  
Latin American Immigrants ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Evidence

This paper examines how the probability of sending remittances and the level of remittances sent are influenced by immigrants’ desire to insure against uncertainty, as opposed to factors that result in remittances with altruistic motives. Using for the first time both 1) data from the Mexican Migration Project and the Latin American Migration Project and 2) the predicted probability of unemployment in the destination country as a measure of immigrants’ economic uncertainty, we find that for Latin American Immigrants insurance motives play a more dominant role than altruistic motives.

Fed move boosts tight Latin American monetary policy

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
Capital Outflows ◽  
Government Bond Markets ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

Subject The impact of US monetary policy tightening. Significance Following the US Federal Reserve's (Fed) historic decision to raise rates for the first time since 2006, the start of the Fed's monetary tightening cycle is accentuating the hawkish stance of Latin America's main central banks. This comes amid a dramatic sell-off in commodity markets, persistent concerns about China's economy and a severe deterioration in economic conditions across the region. Impacts EM asset prices have remained relatively resilient to the rise in US interest rates, in stark contrast to the 'taper tantrum' in 2013. Hitherto-resilient regional local currency government bond markets will face foreign capital outflows due to falling commodity prices. The Brazilian real is 2015's worst-performing major EM currency, but due largely to political and economic difficulties at home.

scholarly journals Dame Edna and ‘the help’

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 152-172
Author(s):  
Adrian Hale
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Latin American Immigrants

‘Dame Edna Everage’, a persona originally created by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries in 1955, is a character designed to simultaneously shock and amuse. Dame Edna voices (and satirizes) the discourse of ‘average’, older, politically conservative Anglo-Australians who feel compelled to ‘tell it like it is’ – no matter how offensive their opinions might be. In the Anglosphere, Edna’s humour is well understood and sustained international success has followed Edna for more than 60 years in Britain, Canada, the US and Australia. However, Edna occasionally misfires. In 2003, for instance, Edna’s satire outraged Latinos across the USA, in fulfillment of Poe’s Law (Aikin, 2009). Simply put, Latinos assumed that Edna’s comments satirising negative mainstream attitudes towards them were expressive of Edna’s authentic racism. This paper investigates the Edna joke in the overall context of failed humour and then specifically for the offensiveness it generated amongst the Latino minority in the United States. It then tests whether this reaction was the result of a discursive frame specific to the US context, by conducting an exploratory study amongst a small sample of highly educated Australian bilingual Latin American immigrants and their adult children, to see whether they thought Edna’s joke was funny. These Australian individuals of Latin American heritage responded via an online questionnaire, and an analysis of their responses is presented here. The study’s main finding is that while these individuals generally demonstrated a high comedic literacy across both English and Spanish, including a prior awareness of Edna’s and Australian humour, they overall rejected the intention and humour of Edna’s joke. This paper asserts that, when it comes to humour, some transnational migrant speech community loyalties transcend other notions of identity and language competence.

The story of the tallat

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Espresso Coffee ◽  
Latin American Immigrants ◽  
First Time

Many Latin Americans who emigrate to Spain arrive in Barcelona, where they encounter Catalan for the first time. Many find jobs in bars shortly after arriving, where they have to deal with not understanding Catalan-speaking customers. In this article, I present selected data from interviews from a four-year qualitative, ethnographic study of the languages, migration, and identities of Latin American immigrants in Barcelona, in which participants describe their first and early encounters with Catalan. One theme that recurred in interviews was that of bar workers not understanding orders for a tallat, an espresso coffee with a shot of warm milk, known as a ‘cortado’ in Spanish. I also bring in data from a government media campaign promoting Catalan use with immigrants and a comedic sketch that parodies the same campaign using the ordering of a tallat as an example. Together, the data illustrate the multilayered, discursive construction of the story of the tallat.

scholarly journals TRANSATLANTIC AFFILIATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF BIBLIOMETRIC EVIDENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-646
Author(s):  
Oskar Kosch ◽  
Marek Szarucki
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Scientific Collaboration ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Us ◽  
First Time

The main objective of the paper is to identify and explore patterns and dynamics of transatlantic scientific collaboration in the field of strategic management between the United States (US) and European countries (EUC) during the last quarter century. Scholarly connections between countries, cities and institutions on the basis of co-author affiliations were analysed to determine the knowledge flow from a geographical perspective. This is the first time international scientific collaboration between researchers in the field of strategic management has been studied to such an extent. We employed all sources of relevant data from the Web of Science and Scopus databases and explored 453 results. Utilizing a bibliometric analysis, our study offers a comprehensive and up-todate identification and assessment of the current situation and dynamics of transatlantic scientific collaboration. The obtained results confirm the dominant role of the US in this type of collaboration. Also, the dominant role of several clusters in terms of collaboration, both on country and institution levels can also be observed. The study confirms the weaker position of Eastern and Central Europe countries in this collaboration and provides some recommendations to increase this type of knowledge exchange in the future.

Alcohol-related problem behaviors among Latin American immigrants in the US

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 206-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Salas-Wright ◽  
Michael G. Vaughn ◽  
Trenette Clark Goings ◽  
Daniel P. Miller ◽  
Jina Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Related Problem ◽  
Alcohol Related Problem ◽  
The Us ◽  
Latin American Immigrants

Vitamin B deficiency neuropathy. Case reports

1990 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 254-256
Author(s):  
WP Skelton ◽  
NK Skelton
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Vitamin B ◽  
Former Prisoners ◽  
The Us ◽  
Latin American Immigrants ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Vitamin B Deficiency ◽  
Poor Nutrition

Poor nutrition is common throughout the third world. The US also has examples among recent Asian and Latin American immigrants, alcoholics, the homeless, and former prisoners of war. All of these groups are susceptible to long-term pathologic damage, depending on the degree of malnutrition which they experience. The peripheral nervous system is quite vulnerable to impairment and damage from vitamin B loss.

The World Economy

2006 ◽  
Vol 198 ◽  
pp. 10-35
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Capacity Utilisation ◽  
Private Sector Investment ◽  
The Us ◽  
Area Growth ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
First Time

While at a global level the outlook for growth remains strong, with GDP growth expected to exceed 4.5 per cent per annum until 2008, we have started to see some shift in the regional composition of growth, with a more dominant role for the Euro Area and Japan and weaker prospects in the US. Oil producing economies are also expected to record strong growth over the next few years, although the recent drop in the oil price has dampened the outlook for these economies slightly. China will continue to expand at a rapid pace, albeit with some easing from the exceptional growth in the first half of this year. Euro Area growth outpaced both the US and Japan in the second quarter of 2006, for the first time since 2001. This acceleration in Euro Area growth was dominated by private sector investment, supported by strong corporate profitability, rising capacity utilisation and low real interest rates.

Affirmative Action and Leadership Attitudes in Brazilian Women Managers

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gazi Islam ◽  
Sarah E. S. Zilenovsky
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Women Managers ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Preferential Selection ◽  
Justice Perceptions ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

This note examines the relationship between affirmative action (AA) program perceptions and women’s self-ascribed capacity and desire to become leaders. We propose that women who believe that their organization implements a program of preferential selection toward women will experience negative psychological effects leading to lowered self-expectations for leadership, but that this effect will be moderated by their justice perceptions of AA programs. We test this proposition empirically for the first time with a Latin American female sample. Among Brazilian women managers, desire but not self-ascribed capacity to lead was reduced when they believed an AA policy was in place. Both desire’s and capacity’s relationships with belief in an AA policy were moderated by justice perceptions.

Balancing Act: Identity and Otherness among Latin American Immigrants and their Food Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Paulette Kershenovich Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Food Practices ◽  
Food Research ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Latin American Immigrants

This article deals with the identity construction of Latin American immigrants in Israel through their food practices. Food is a basic symbolic element connecting cultural perceptions and experiences. For immigrants, food is also an important element in the maintenance of personal ties with their home countries and a cohesive factor in the construction of a new identity in Israel, their adopted homeland. Food practices encode tacit information and non-verbal cues that are integral parts of an individual’s relationship with different social groups. In this case, I recruited participants from an online group formed within social media platforms of Latin American women living in Israel. The basic assumption of this study posits that certain communication systems are set in motion around food events in various social contexts pertaining to different national or local cuisines and culinary customs. Their meaning, significance and modifications and how they are framed. This article focuses on the adaptation and acculturation processes because it is at that point that immigrants are faced with an interesting duality of reconstructing their unique cultural perceptions to either fit the existing national collective ethos or create a new reality. In this study, the main objective is to compare two different immigrant groups: Jewish and non-Jewish women from Latin America who came to Israel during the last ten years. The comparative nature of the research revealed marked differences between ethnic, religious and cultural elements that reflect coping strategies manifested in the cultural production of food and its representation in two distinct domains: private and public. In the former, it is illustrated within the family and home and how they connect or clash with the latter in the form of consumption in public. Combining cultural studies and discourse analysis, this article offers fresh insight into new models of food practices and reproductions. The article’s contribution to new food research lies in its ability to shed light on how inter-generational and inter-religious discourses are melded while food practices and traditions are embedded in a new Israeli identity.

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