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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Main Author: Singh, Supriya
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description 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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spelling my.usm.eprints.40232 http://eprints.usm.my/40232/ Sending Money Home – Maintaining Family And Community Singh, Supriya P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) 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. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40232/1/Supriya_SendingMoneyHome.pdf Singh, Supriya (2007) Sending Money Home – Maintaining Family And Community. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 3 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243 http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Supriya_SendingMoneyHome.pdf
spellingShingle P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
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Sending Money Home – Maintaining Family And Community
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title_full Sending Money Home – Maintaining Family And Community
title_fullStr Sending Money Home – Maintaining Family And Community
title_full_unstemmed Sending Money Home – Maintaining Family And Community
title_short Sending Money Home – Maintaining Family And Community
title_sort sending money home – maintaining family and community
topic P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
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