US - El Salvador Transnationalism
The NAID Center has partnered with the Government of El Salvador and the UNDP El Salvador to promote transnational research and policy agendas in the U.S. and El Salvador. Projects include the elaboration of a FIRST-EVER UNDP Transnational Human Development Report, a Research-Action Program of Transnational Policy Interventions, the institutionalization of transnational policy research and action in the U.S., El Salvador, and other areas affected by transnational dynamics, and the linking of local municipal leaders with members of the Diaspora in the U.S.
US - EL Salvador Transnationalism
NAID created new transnational data base aggregation and analytic techniques to allow the combined use of data bases from different countries, creating new transnational social accounting matrices (SAMs), as well as the creation of new transnational forecasting applications. To initiate the transnational corridor identification analysis NAID developed a Web Based Corridor Search Engine as a GIS (geographic information systems) data base tool for micro-regional data mapping necessary for the comparative analysis of transnational corridors. These tools, processes, systems, and methodologies have been used to create new transnational research agendas.
Salvadoran expatriates politically active in the greater Los Angeles area as well as in national politics in El Salvador, have partnered with the NAID Center to organize the build out of a network of transaction points in the Los Angeles Salvadoran Business corridor with the intention of replicating the financial ecosystem in other US cities where Salvadorans are concentrated. To that end, they facilitated as well NAID receiving from the Office of the President and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a data base of all passports issued by El Salvador that NAID has used to begin mapping what cities and regions Salvadorans expatriates are from; and where they now reside in the United States. Immigrant remittance corridors are being formulated based on the mapping results depicting the concentrations of Salvadorans in US cities (Washington, DC, Houston, San Francisco, and Boston).
Salvadoran expatriates politically active in the greater Los Angeles area as well as in national politics in El Salvador, have partnered with the NAID Center to organize the build out of a network of transaction points in the Los Angeles Salvadoran Business corridor with the intention of replicating the financial ecosystem in other US cities where Salvadorans are concentrated. To that end, they facilitated as well NAID receiving from the Office of the President and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a data base of all passports issued by El Salvador that NAID has used to begin mapping what cities and regions Salvadorans expatriates are from; and where they now reside in the United States. Immigrant remittance corridors are being formulated based on the mapping results depicting the concentrations of Salvadorans in US cities (Washington, DC, Houston, San Francisco, and Boston).
