ABSTRACT
In recent years, migration analysts have observed the steady growth of immigrant-led organizations, and most particularly hometown associations (HTAs) in different parts of the world. Despite their voluntary structure and relative formality, these groups have increasingly gained visibility by becoming an effective means to improve the social and economic conditions of their hometowns in their nations of origin, by raising funds which are then transformed into collective remittances. As a result, these migrant associations have become a recurrent topic within the nexus of migration, the expanding fl ow of remittances, and development.
