Families, I love you: for the 281 million immigrants listed by the United Nations, this is not an empty word. They will have sent some $ 751 billion in 2021 to their loved ones back home. The statistics come from the World Bank, which records these remittances every year, "remittances" in English. The study calculates for each country the funds it receives from its own emigrants and those it issues, remittances from immigrants living in its territory. These transfers received a strange publicity recently, when Arnaud Montebourg, presidential candidate, suggested blocking them against North African countries refusing to repatriate their nationals targeted by an expulsion measure in France.
In this regard, the World Bank, and this is not the least merit of its report, reminds us that France receives more money from its nationals working abroad (20.2 billion euros) than do not transfer
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