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Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change The Future of Transnational Society /

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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 effec...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Meyer, Silke (Editor), Ströhle, Claudius (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Political sociology.
Economics.
Development economics.
Sociology of Migration.
Political Sociology.
Political Economy and Economic Systems.
Development Economics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
  • Part I: Historical Perspectives: Paving the Platform for Remittance Research
  • Chapter 2. Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943
  • Chapter 3. Remittances as Social Glue in Global Communities: Historical Perspectives and Evidence from Lebanese Diaspora in Kfarsghab/Lebanon, Sydney/Australian, Easton/USA andProvidence/USA
  • Chapter 4. Overseas Remittances from Southeast Asia to China around the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
  • Chapter 5. "Money can't buy me love": Remittances, return migration, and family relations in Serbia (1960s-2000s)
  • Chapter 6. "You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too": Remittances in State Policy, Society and Economy in the First and Second Yugoslavia
  • Chapter 7. Social Science Research, Remittances and "Guest Worker" Migration in Austria
  • Part II: Migrants as Game Changers: The Collectivity and Agency of Remittances
  • Chapter 8. Decay or Transformation? TheConfluence of Migrant Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity
  • Chapter 9. "Solidarity, not Charity": Collective Transnational Remittance Practices of Moldovan Migrants
  • Chapter 10. The Impact of Collective Remittances on Community Resilience: A Case Study on Rural Health Infrastructure in Burkina Faso
  • Chapter 11. Bushfalling: The Act of Remittances by Senegambians in Switzerland
  • Chapter 12. More Money, Less Politics: Financial Remittances and Voting Patterns in the Municipalities of the Republic of Serbia
  • Chapter 13. A Sociology of Remittances, Transnationalism and the State: A Comparative Exploration of the Role of the Destination State in Remittances
  • Part III: Remittances as Practices of Exchange: Rethinking Materiality, Mobility and the Post-Colonial
  • Chapter 14. Houses, Remittances and Migrating Spaces in the Context of Turkish Remigration
  • Chapter 15. The Afterlife of Immigrant Gifts
  • Chapter 16. The Story of a Knife: Reflections on the Materiality of Remittances
  • Chapter 17. Using Material Remittances from Labour Schemes for Social and Economic Development, Case Study Vanuatu
  • Chapter 18. Peace in Gifts or Peace as a Gift? The Role of Remittances in the Peacebuilding-Process in Colombia
  • Chapter 19. Remittances, Refugee and Peacebuilding in Syria
  • Chapter 20. Receiving the Gift of the Master's Voice: How White, Western Academic Paradigms Shape Knowledge Exchange
  • Chapter 21. Conclusion: Moving Towards the Future of Transnational Society in Three Steps.

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