The New Foreign Aid
The Los Angeles Times has been running an extraordinary series of articles on foreign remittances, which is the most substantial amount of foreign aid pouring into developing countries. These are the dollars that are sent home every month by lettuce harvesters, nannies, hotel workers, etc.
This flow of money secreted by hard working immigrant relatives keeps the impoverished families in the home country fed, clothed and occasionally sends them to school as well as university, and even starts up cottage industries.
The LA Times has done an important piece of journalism here -- responding to the immigration reform proposals in Congress right now that would criminalize many of these people in the United States.
My parents did a some foreign remittance aid as I was growing up -- sending money to cash strapped family in Taiwan and then later to the PRC, but my father was no longer working class -- he was gainfully employed by the time I came to the States at the United Nationa.-- Taiwan quickly emerged from the developing country category -- transitting from an agriculturally based country to an industrial. Today, it is filled with foreign workers from the Phillipines, Vietnam and the PRC, who are often treated pitilessly by their Taiwanese employers.
Everyone has a dream, some of the transformatory powers of botox injections, others of sending their siblings to school.
This flow of money secreted by hard working immigrant relatives keeps the impoverished families in the home country fed, clothed and occasionally sends them to school as well as university, and even starts up cottage industries.
The LA Times has done an important piece of journalism here -- responding to the immigration reform proposals in Congress right now that would criminalize many of these people in the United States.
My parents did a some foreign remittance aid as I was growing up -- sending money to cash strapped family in Taiwan and then later to the PRC, but my father was no longer working class -- he was gainfully employed by the time I came to the States at the United Nationa.-- Taiwan quickly emerged from the developing country category -- transitting from an agriculturally based country to an industrial. Today, it is filled with foreign workers from the Phillipines, Vietnam and the PRC, who are often treated pitilessly by their Taiwanese employers.
Everyone has a dream, some of the transformatory powers of botox injections, others of sending their siblings to school.
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