INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND COMMUNITY-DEVELOPMENT

A prior review published in this journal considered the consequences o f international migration for national economic development. In this a rticle we examine theories and research on the relationship between in ternational migration and development at the community level. Once aga in we conclude that prior work has been unduly pessimistic about the p rospects for development as a result of international migration, large ly because it has failed to Lake into account the complex, often indir ect ways that migration and remittances influence the economic status of households and the communities that contain them.