November 29, 2023
This open-access book, edited by Silke Meyer and Claudius Ströhle, explores the transformative impact of remittances. Remittances are understood as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions and symbolic capital that represent a cross-border space in which people live, work and communicate using a variety of goods.
Diversified exchange causes social changes in both places of origin and destinations. However, the power to improve individual living conditions and community infrastructures comes primarily from global inequality. Therefore, the authors question the remittance mantra and go beyond the migration-development nexus, highlighting the dependencies and frictions in remittance relationships. Remittances are therefore examined for their impact on social cohesion and social division. By highlighting the transformative effects of remittances in the context of conflict, climate change and the post-colonial era, researchers shed light on the future of transnational society.
Using empirical case studies from Ghana, Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Turkey, Lebanon, the USA, Japan and several European countries, as well as historic North America and the Habsburg Empire, the book examines the remittance relationships of a series of disciplines. such as anthropology, sociology, history, design, architecture, governance and peace studies.
Information about the book:
Remittances as social practices and agents of change
The Future of the Transnational Society
Silke Meyer, Claudius Ströhle (ed.)
Hardcover edition
Palgrave Macmillan 2023
ISBN: 978-3030815035
Price: €55.15
E-book (open access)
