Sending Money Home – Maintaining Family And Community
Remittances, that is, money migrants send home, are more than double the official aid received by developing countries. International financial institutions and national governments have focused on the growth of remittances, their impact on poverty alleviation and development. In this paper I pre...
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Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press)
2007
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/40232/1/Supriya_SendingMoneyHome.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/40232/ http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Supriya_SendingMoneyHome.pdf |
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| Summary: | Remittances, that is, money migrants send home, are more than double the official
aid received by developing countries. International financial institutions and
national governments have focused on the growth of remittances, their impact on
poverty alleviation and development. In this paper I present a complementary
picture from the perspective of the migrants who send money home. I draw on an
ongoing qualitative project of family, money and migration in the Indian
Diaspora. Migrants send money home because they want to continue to remain
part of their families and communities back home. Remittances display this family
and community identity to themselves and to others. Remittances thus are family
and community threads that intersect across countries in an increasingly global
world. |
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