Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing by Lan Anh Hoang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh (eds.)

By Lan Anh Hoang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh (eds.)

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1997) The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S. A. , J. Litt and C. Bose, Eds. (2006) Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Zlotnik, H. (1995) “Migration and the Family: The Female Perspective”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 4(2–3): 253–271. Zontini, E. (2010) “Immigrant Women in Barcelona: Coping with the Consequences of Transnational Lives”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 30(6): 1113–1144.

Returns varied by the type of migration – internal or international, rural or urban, and the costs incurred. Financing overseas migration necessitated disposing of land or livestock (in 26 per cent of the cases) or borrowing from moneylenders at interest rates as high as 10 per cent per month (54 per cent). Working conditions were often poor and risks high. Higher earnings were then not always assured, although 73 per cent reported earning more than if they had not migrated. Only very few respondents noted the problem of sending remittances, pointing to the success of policy interventions in this area over the previous decade.

Dalipaj and N. Mai (2006) “Gendering Migration and Remittances: Evidence from London and Northern Albania”, Population, Space and Place 12: 409–434. Koc, I. and I. Onan (2004) “International Migrants’ Remittances and Welfare Status of the Left-Behind Families in Turkey”, International Migration Review 38(1): 78–112. Kofman, E. and P. Raghuram (2009) “The Implications of Migration for Gender and Care Regimes in the South”, Social Policy and Development Programme Paper Number 41. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.

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