Abstract

PECOUD, Antoine. Remesas desde la perspectiva de los organismos internacionales: construcción de un desafío y elaboración de una agenda política internacional. Migr. desarro [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.25, pp.33-59. ISSN 1870-7599.

The interest of international organizations in the relationships that exist between migration and development has grown during the past fifteen years. For both their volume as well as the repercussions in migrant regions of origin, remittances are a particularly vivid illustration of how development may be pursued. Thus, for some international organizations, the sending of money is a key element in the understanding of distinct migrant realities and for the creation of policy recommendations for the United States. The World Bank has played a particularly important role in the re-evaluation of remittances and in the collection of empirical data on the topic. In this article, we analyze the debates among international organizations regarding remittances and show that -despite their technocratic and apolitical tone- a vision of the world is presented that belongs to a particular ideological and political context and, further, that prescribes a series of prescriptions that should be adopted by the States involved, the private sector, and migrants themselves.

Keywords : remittances; migration; development; international organizations; international discourse on migration.