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oapen-20.500.12657-762162023-09-14T03:38:38Z Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change Meyer, Silke Ströhle, Claudius transnationalism migration economy political economy charity financial remittances gift exchange cultural exchange bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies 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. 2023-09-13T19:45:11Z 2023-09-13T19:45:11Z 2023 book ONIX_20230913_9783030815042_2 9783030815042 9783030815035 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76216 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-81504-2.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-81504-2 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-81504-2 10.1007/978-3-030-81504-2 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 26ae1657-c58f-4f1d-a392-585ee75c293e 1ef88b83-111a-4f44-8a5f-26e95999617d 9783030815042 9783030815035 Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Palgrave Macmillan 465 Cham [...] [...] Austrian Science Fund Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung open access
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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.
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