Including Migration in the Development Calculus: The Dominican Republic and Other Caribbean Countries

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ABSTRACT: The writer discusses the socioeconomic impact of international labor migration on the Caribbean basin. The books reviewed are Migration, Remittances, and Small Business Development: Mexico and the Caribbean Basin Countries, edited by Sergio Diaz-Briquets and Sidney Weintraub; Los dominicanos en Puerto Rico: migracion en la semi-periferia, edited by Jorge Duany; The Making of a Transnational Community: Migration, Development, and Cultural Change in the Dominican Republic, by Eugenia Georges; Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration, by Sherri Grasmuck and Patricia R. Pessar; Los inmigrantes indocumentados dominicanos en Puerto Rico: realidad y mitos, edited by Juan E. Hernandez Cruz; Small Country Development and International Labor Flows: Experiences in the Caribbean, edited by Anthony P. Maingot; and Capitalistas del tropico: la inmigracion en los Estados Unidos y el desarrollo de la pequena empresa en la Republica Dominicana, by Alejandro Portes and Luis E. Guarnizo.