Resumen

TUIRAN GUTIERREZ, Rodolfo; SANTIBANEZ ROMELLON, Jorge  y  CORONA VAZQUEZ, Rodolfo. The amount of family remittances in Mexico: Myth or reality?. Pap. poblac [online]. 2006, vol.12, n.50, pp.147-169. ISSN 2448-7147.

Family remittances have registered an explosive increment in recent years. However, the authors argue that the official figures generated by the Bank of Mexico are sustained in some conceptual ambiguities and show marked differences with other information sources (mainly censuses and surveys, which are coherent between them). As a consequence, the authors maintain that not all the resources registered by the Bank of Mexico regarding family remittances are so. Besides this kind of mailing, the statistics of the Bank of Mexico are assessing another type of private transfers (related to legal activities and even with illegal activities.

Palabras llave : international migration; monetary remittances; Bank of Mexico; Mexico.