Remittances back home from primarily low-wage immigrants sustain families, communities, and countries. A talk by Maria Jimenez at the International Conference on the Gift Economy in 2004 is even more current in the anti-immigrant climate of today.
Jimenez is an immigration rights activist and policy analyst based in the U.S.
Originally recorded in 2004. Transcript here: http://www.gift-economy.com/womenand/womenand_borders.html
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Recorded by L.A. Sound Posse; edited by Kellia Ramares and Frieda Werden.