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Is More Necessarily Better?: Leadership and Organizational Development of Migrant Hometown Associations in Los Angeles, California

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Hometown associations (HTAS) in the United States are migrant, voluntary groups with a shared sense of belonging to a region in a different country of origin. Their philanthropic activities across borders have increasingly attracted the attention of government agencies and social and political actors. These actors have endeavored to form more HTAS and place greater demands on them to expand their civic engagement. This strategy, however, will not necessarily lead to that purpose, but instead will likely exacerbate a critical gap in the HTAS' organizational capacity. Th is paper argues that a different strategy is best suited to strengthen the organizational ability of HTAS, and proposes a framework to achieve this goal based on a capacity building pilot program for Latino HTAS from the Los Angeles region.

Source: Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México)

DOI: 10.17428/rmi.v6i21.752

Authors: Luís Escala Rabadán, Gaspar Rivera‐Salgado, Rigoberto Rodríguez

Institutions: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Long Beach

Language: English

Topic: Diaspora, migration, transnational identity

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2143768412

FWCI: 3.474

Cites: 41

Cited by: 11

Related to: 10