The new development finance or exploiting migrant labour? Remittance sending among low-paid migrant workers in London

International Development Planning Review

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-67

  Datta, Kavita ^a   McIlwaine, Cathy ^a   Wills, Jane ^a   Evans, Yara ^a   Herbert, Joanna ^a   May, Jon ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT LEVEL; FINANCE; LABOR MARKET; MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; POLICY STRATEGY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34248580349     PISSN: 14746743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/idpr.29.1.3     Document Type: Article

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