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- Hometown_Association abstract "Hometown associations (also known as HTAs) are social alliances that are formed amongst immigrants from the same city or region of origin. Their goal is to maintain connections with and provide aid to a shared place of origin. They also aim to produce a new sense of transnational community and identity rooted in the migrant's country of origin and extending to the country of settlement. The total number of HTAs is unmeasured because these groups fluctuate in number every year. The United States is home to approximately 3,000 Mexican HTAs. Filipino groups may amount to 1,000, and other ethnic migrants such as Ghanaians amount to about 500 organizations. These associations are predominantly volunteer driven and the larger ones have official nonprofit statuses such as 501(c)(3) registration within the United States. Smaller groups are only for family remittances and do not affiliate with any government or organizational support. HTAs are usually led by a board of directors or elected group leaders. However, due to the voluntary nature of HTAs and the predominantly working-class profiles of their members, the amount of time devoted to HTA activities is commonly limited. For the majority of HTAs, the main activity is fundraising for continuous programs or fundraising for special needs, such as a natural disaster in the home country. Many HTA projects are oriented towards the advancement of health or educational activities and resources for the HTAs country of origin. This includes HTAs working in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa who donate school or medical supplies to local institutions, or provide basic infrastructure through the construction of clinics, classrooms, parks, and homes. HTAs also serve to donate money for special occasions or circumstances, such as a religious celebration or to repaint or repair a local church in either their new community location or in their place of origin. The percentage of remittance-sending migrants who belong to HTAs varies from one national origin group to another. Often, HTAs coordinate with local organizations within their community of origin to put their projects into practice. For example, in Guyana, the most common local partners are local nonprofits and churches. Because HTAs are voluntary based groups, getting participation outside one's family ties can be a major challenge. People who migrated from common hometowns who appreciate the public goods that HTAs produce such as community parties tend to believe that the individual cost of contributing to the collective good outweighs any benefit. The challenge of confronting the cost and benefit of HTA investments results in the involvement in associations to be low and sporadic.".
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- Hometown_Association wikiPageRevisionID "708379774".
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink 501(c)_organization.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Benefit_society.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Board_of_directors.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink California_Proposition_187.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Category:Immigrant_services_organizations.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Education.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Election.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Employment.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Florida.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Foreign_exchange_market.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Foreign_worker.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Funeral.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Health_care.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Housing.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Immigration.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Internal_Revenue_Service.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Kinship.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Mexican_Americans.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Mexico–United_States_relations.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink National_Association_of_Latino_Elected_and_Appointed_Officials.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Natural_disaster.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink New_York.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Nonprofit_corporation.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Overseas_Filipinos.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Public_policy.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Remittance.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Texas.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Transnationalism.
- Hometown_Association wikiPageWikiLink Working_class.
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- Hometown_Association subject Category:Immigrant_services_organizations.
- Hometown_Association hypernym Alliances.
- Hometown_Association type PoliticalParty.
- Hometown_Association comment "Hometown associations (also known as HTAs) are social alliances that are formed amongst immigrants from the same city or region of origin. Their goal is to maintain connections with and provide aid to a shared place of origin. They also aim to produce a new sense of transnational community and identity rooted in the migrant's country of origin and extending to the country of settlement. The total number of HTAs is unmeasured because these groups fluctuate in number every year.".
- Hometown_Association label "Hometown Association".
- Hometown_Association sameAs Q22908940.
- Hometown_Association sameAs Q22908940.
- Hometown_Association wasDerivedFrom Hometown_Association?oldid=708379774.
- Hometown_Association isPrimaryTopicOf Hometown_Association.