The old migrants buy houses or rebuild their houses in home countries by their remittance. In chapter one of Lopez's reading, the two younger Robles brother is a great example because they used their remittance to rebuild their mother's house in home country. The rebuilded houses, as "remittance houses", usually look like "American houses". The reason Mexico people like to rebuild their houses or buy "big houses" in home country is because those houses can announce or imply a migrant's success abroad. Also, the "remittance houses" or "big houses" can display and improve the social status of migrant and his/her families in home country. Besides showing migrant's success and social statues, the "remittance houses" or "big houses" also encourage the people without personal connection in home country to migrate because it conveies the advantages of living in America. By the influence of "remittance house", many people in home country decide to migrate and wish that they can own nice houses one day in home country. Because of the effect of feedbacks and "remittance houses", more people migrate to foreign place for work. After those new migrants arrived in foreign place, they would meet the other people with potential connections to the foregin place and make friend with them. As times goes on, the quality and quantity of new migrants' social networks would be improved, and thus the new migrant's social captial also grows as they can mobilize more resources or access to more resources than before. As a result, another people in home country may follow the new migrants's step and migrate too. cumulative causation of
The old migrants buy houses or rebuild their houses in home countries by their remittance. In chapter one of Lopez's reading, the two younger Robles brother is a great example because they used their remittance to rebuild their mother's house in home country. The rebuilded houses, as "remittance houses", usually look like "American houses". The reason Mexico people like to rebuild their houses or buy "big houses" in home country is because those houses can announce or imply a migrant's success abroad. Also, the "remittance houses" or "big houses" can display and improve the social status of migrant and his/her families in home country. Besides showing migrant's success and social statues, the "remittance houses" or "big houses" also encourage the people without personal connection in home country to migrate because it conveies the advantages of living in America. By the influence of "remittance house", many people in home country decide to migrate and wish that they can own nice houses one day in home country. Because of the effect of feedbacks and "remittance houses", more people migrate to foreign place for work. After those new migrants arrived in foreign place, they would meet the other people with potential connections to the foregin place and make friend with them. As times goes on, the quality and quantity of new migrants' social networks would be improved, and thus the new migrant's social captial also grows as they can mobilize more resources or access to more resources than before. As a result, another people in home country may follow the new migrants's step and migrate too. cumulative causation of