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Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
- The Future of Transnational Society
Engelsk Hardback
Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
- The Future of Transnational Society
Engelsk Hardback

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This edited volume 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.

This is an open access book.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
465
ISBN-13:
9783030815035
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
303081503X
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2023
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2023
Forfatter(e):
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