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STATES BEYOND BORDERS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CE...

The study of migration in political science  and particularly in international relations  has
tended to focus on the study of immigration. However  sending states are increasingly
institutionalizing their policies and programs to include emigrants living outside the national
territory. In her monograph  Isabel Rosales Sandoval focuses on the factors that influence the
implementation of the policies that sending states have adopted to reach out to their citizens
abroad. Specifically  she investigates why and how sending states implement transnational
emigrant policies. Her comparative study of three Central American sending states-El Salvador 
Guatemala  and Honduras-identifies four policy categories that these states have developed: 1)
recognizing the emigrant community through the creation of institutions  2) cultivating
loyalties in the emigrant community through symbolic policies  3) extending emigrant rights 
and 4) extracting resources by incorporating migrants into the national economy. However  the
motivation for the policies does not exactly correspond to the assumptions and typologies of
existing theories on the subject  which tend to focus on international factors. The argument
the author presents is that the characteristics of these three cases are better explained by
domestic political factors. These are: 1) the importance of the size and potential impact of
the emigrant communities  2) party system competitiveness  and 3) the sending states'
institutional capacity to implement policies.

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