ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the economic policies of migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries can accentuate or moderate migration flows. It assesses the evolution of US foreign aid, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, as the United States was replaced as the dominant aid donor by international financial institutions. The book describes the conflict between separate US policies in his analysis of the effects on the Caribbean Basin of domestically motivated sugar programs and the Caribbean Basin Initiative. It explores the extent to which the liberalization of trade in fresh winter tomatoes would influence undocumented migration flows from Mexico to the United States. The book examines household reliance on income earned by female members to complement or substitute for the earnings of male migrants. Economic and social development in migrant-sending countries are the only realistic solutions to the undocumented immigration dilemma.
