Remittances As Social Practices And Agents Of Change

Author : Silke Meyer,Claudius Ströhle
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 303081503X

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Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change by Silke Meyer,Claudius Ströhle Pdf

This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people live, work, and communicate with multiple belongings. By doing so, they effect social change both in places of origin and destination. However, their power to improve individual living conditions and community infrastructure mainly results from global inequality. Hence, we challenge the remittance mantra and go beyond the migration-development-nexus by revealing dependencies and frictions in remittance relations. Remittances are thus scrutinized in their effects on both social cohesion and social rupture. By highlighting the transformative effects of remittance in the context of conflict, climate change, and the postcolonial, we shed light on the future of transnational society. Presenting empirical case studies from Ghana, Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Turkey, Lebanon, USA, Japan, and various European countries, as well as historical North America and the Habsburg Empire, we explore remittance relations from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, history, design, architecture, governance, and peace studies.

Author : Izabela Grabowska,Michał P. Garapich,Ewa Jaźwińska,Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137590664

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Migrants as Agents of Change by Izabela Grabowska,Michał P. Garapich,Ewa Jaźwińska,Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna Pdf

This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it demonstrates that not all migrants acquire, transfer and implement social remittances in the same way. Whilst the circulation of ideas, norms and practices is an important aspect of modernity, acts of resistance, imitation and innovation mean that whilst some migrants become ordinary agents of social change in their local microcosms, others may contest that change. By putting this individual agency centre stage, the authors trace how social remittances are evolving, and the ambiguous impact that they have on society. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology.

Author : Silke Meyer,Claudius Ströhle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030815042

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Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change by Silke Meyer,Claudius Ströhle Pdf

This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people live, work, and communicate with multiple belongings. By doing so, they effect social change both in places of origin and destination. However, their power to improve individual living conditions and community infrastructure mainly results from global inequality. Hence, we challenge the remittance mantra and go beyond the migration-development-nexus by revealing dependencies and frictions in remittance relations. Remittances are thus scrutinized in their effects on both social cohesion and social rupture. By highlighting the transformative effects of remittance in the context of conflict, climate change, and the postcolonial, we shed light on the future of transnational society. Presenting empirical case studies from Ghana, Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Turkey, Lebanon, USA, Japan, and various European countries, as well as historical North America and the Habsburg Empire, we explore remittance relations from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, history, design, architecture, governance, and peace studies.

Author : Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich,Anastasia Christou,Silke Meyer,Marie Johanna Karner,Anton Jakob Escher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003804154

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Migrant Narratives by Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich,Anastasia Christou,Silke Meyer,Marie Johanna Karner,Anton Jakob Escher Pdf

With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community. Driven by an agenda of deep listening, each chapter presents a narrative directly derived from qualitative research, an outline of the methodological framing as well as narrative analysis. Through close attention to the narrative, its performative aspects and its ruptures and silences, authors identify patterns and material in the fabric of such telling and retelling of stories that open up new perspectives on the migrant experience. This book develops a methodology of "dwelling with stories" that allows for sustained and slow interrogation of the migrant experience and the accompanying decisions that shape narratives around mobility across borders. Its structure is innovative by emphasising the migrant voice and reflecting on the scholars’ positionality, while also offering new theoretical contributions that will advance the field of narrative analysis. The book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners in a wide range of subject areas within the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, migration/refugee/diaspora studies and oral history. Chapter 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Remus Gabriel Anghel,Margit Fauser,Paolo Boccagni
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785270956

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Transnational Return and Social Change by Remus Gabriel Anghel,Margit Fauser,Paolo Boccagni Pdf

Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees’ continued transnational ties, practices and resources have become increasingly visible. Transnational Return and Social Change joins what is now a growing fi eld of research and suggests new ways to understand the dynamics of return migration and the social changes that come along. It pays tribute to the meso-level impacts that follow the practices and resources migrant returnees mobilize across borders. With a particular focus on the meso-level the book takes up the challenge of transnational research and enquires into the consequences of return for local communities, organizations, social networks and groups. Presenting a collection of case studies dedicated to migrations across Europe and beyond, this book contributes new insights into the societal impact of migration in pluralized societies.

Author : Magdalena Nowicka,Vojin Šerbedžija
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137601261

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Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe by Magdalena Nowicka,Vojin Šerbedžija Pdf

This book explores migrant's global social remittances and their impacts on Europe. Exploring the topic from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, geography and political science, the authors present empirical analyses covering a wide selection of international contexts across Europe, India, Iraq, Bolivia, Congo, Lebanon and Thailand. The book presents migrants not as Europe’s ‘cultural others’ but as an integral part of Europe’s global connection, and scrutinises the flows of knowledge, ideas, money, objects and values which result from the process of migration, rather than the migrants themselves. A valuable contribution to the literature on migrant transnationalism and globalisation, this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences.

Author : Ton van Naerssen,Lothar Smith,Marianne H. Marchand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134778072

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Women, Gender, Remittances and Development in the Global South by Ton van Naerssen,Lothar Smith,Marianne H. Marchand Pdf

This book endeavours to take the conceptualisation of the relationship between transnational remittance exchanges and gender to a new level. Thus, inevitably, it provides a number of case studies of relationships between gender and remittances from around the world, highlighting different processes and practises. Thereby the authors seek to understand the impact of remittances on gender and gender relations, both at the sending as well as at the receiving end. For each case study authors ask how remittances affect gender identities and relationships but also vice versa. By itself this already adds a wealth of insights to a field that is remarkably understudied despite a volume of studies on gender and the feminization of migration in developing contexts. Chapters take an open, explorative approach to the relationship between gender and remittance behaviour with the aid of case studies focusing on transnational flows between migrants and countries of origin. With the wide variety of cases this book is able to provide conceptual insights to better understand how remittances affect gender identity, roles and relations (at both the receiving and sending end) and give specific attention to the roles of various actors directly and indirectly involved in remittance sending in current collectively organized remittance schemes from around the world.

Author : Anne White,Izabela Grabowska,Paweł Kaczmarczyk,Krystyna Slany
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787350687

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The Impact of Migration on Poland by Anne White,Izabela Grabowska,Paweł Kaczmarczyk,Krystyna Slany Pdf

How has the international mobility of Polish citizens intertwined with other influences to shape society, culture, politics and economics in contemporary Poland? The Impact of Migration on Poland offers a new approach for understanding how migration affects sending countries, and provides a wide-ranging analysis of how Poland has changed, and continues to change, since EU accession in 2004. The authors explore an array of social trends and their causes before using in-depth interview data to illustrate how migration contributes to those causes. They address fundamental questions about whether and how Polish society is becoming more equal and more cosmopolitan, arguing that for particular segments of society migration does make a difference, and can be seen as both leveller and eye-opener. While the book focuses mainly on stayers in Poland, and their multiple contacts with Poles in other countries, Chapter 9 analyses ‘Polish society abroad’, a more accurate concept than ‘community’ in countries like the UK, and Chapter 10 considers impacts of immigration to Poland. The book is written in a lively and accessible style, and will be important reading for anyone interested in the influence of migration on society, as well as students and scholars researching EU mobility, migration theory and methodology, and issues facing contemporary Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912367

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Returning - Remitting - Receiving by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel Munzele Maimbo,Dilip Ratha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821357941

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Remittances by Samuel Munzele Maimbo,Dilip Ratha Pdf

Migrants have long faced unwarranted constraints to sending money to family members and relatives in their home countries, among them costly fees and commissions, inconvenient formal banking hours, and inefficient domestic banking services that delay final payment to the beneficiaries. Yet such remittances are perhaps the largest source of external finance in developing countries. Officially recorded remittance flows to developing countries exceeded US$125 billion in 2004, making them the second largest source of development finance after foreign direct investment. This book demonstrates that governments in developing countries increasingly recognize the importance of remittance flows and are quickly addressing these constraints.

Author : Anna Lindley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845458324

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The Early Morning Phonecall by Anna Lindley Pdf

As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. Despite considerable research on the impact of migration and remittances in countries of origin - increasingly viewed as a source of development capital - still little is known about refugees' remittances to conflict-affected countries because such funds are most often seen as a source of conflict finance. This book explores the dynamics, infrastructure, and far-reaching effects of remittances from the perspectives of people in the Somali regions and the diaspora. With conflict driving mass displacement, Somali society has become progressively transnational, its vigorous remittance economy reaching from the heart of the global North into wrecked cities, refugee camps, and remote rural areas. By 'following the money' the author opens a window on the everyday lives of people caught up in processes of conflict, migration, and development. The book demonstrates how, in the interstices of state disruption and globalisation, and in the shadow of violence and political uncertainty, life in the Somali regions goes on, subject to complex transnational forms of social, economic, and political innovation and change.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781589068254

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International Transactions in Remittances by International Monetary Fund Pdf

The International Transactions in Remittance: Guide for Compilers and Users (RCG) presents concepts, definitions, and classifications related to remittances. It is consistent with the new standards for measuring balance of payments transactions, as contained in the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6). These standards are used globally to compile comprehensive and comparable data. The RCG identifies the main remittances compilation methods currently being used by compilers and discusses in detail the strengths and weaknesses of each method. It is the first manual providing compilation guidance for remittances and is also the first compilation guide based on concepts set out in BPM6. Although the RCG is primarily aimed at remittances data compilers, it may also be useful for users who wish to understand remittances data.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789251099056

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Qualitative research on decent rural employment and social protection by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Covering Malawi's social cash trasfer programme "Lifting up families", this publication concludes that although the programme enables beneficiares to engage in different income-generating activities, it has no impact on youth employment opportunities.

Author : Bozena C. Welborne
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031048777

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Women, Money, and Political Participation in the Middle East by Bozena C. Welborne Pdf

This book examines women, money, and political participation in the Middle East and North Africa focusing on women’s capacity to engage local political systems. In particular, it considers whether and how this engagement is facilitated through specific types of financial flows from abroad. Arab countries are well-known rentier states, and so a prime destination for foreign aid, worker remittances, and oil-related investment. Alongside other factors these external monies have elicited dramatic shifts in gender-related social norms and expectations both from the state and the domestic population, affording certain women the opportunity to enter the political arena, while leaving others behind. The research presented here expands the discussion of women in rentier political economy and highlights their roles as participants and agents within regional templates for economic development.

Author : Peeter Vihalemm,Anu Masso,Signe Opermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317043508

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The Routledge International Handbook of European Social Transformations by Peeter Vihalemm,Anu Masso,Signe Opermann Pdf

This book focuses on social transformations as one of the central topics in the social sciences. The study of European social transformations is very valuable in the context of universal discussions within social sciences: explaining invariable, universal attributes of societies and examining changing attributes. The book consists of 20 chapters on European social transformations, written from the perspectives of distinguished scholars from such disciplines as economics, political science, educational science, geography, media and communication studies, public management and administration, social psychology and sociology. The temporal and spatial range of the book is wide, including such global changes as time-space compression, focusing particularly on change processes in Europe during the last two decades. The book consists of four main parts, beginning with an overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches, and then focusing separately on post-communist transformations, institutional drivers of social transformations in the European Union, and European transformations in the context of global processes. The book presents current theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches that complement the scientific literature on social transformations. This book is both an invaluable resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom and will be of interest to students, academics, and policy-makers studying how this diverse region has changed over recent years.