Being seen: visibility, families and dynamic remittance practices

Harper, Robin A.; Zubida, Hani

doi:10.1080/21632324.2017.1301303

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“…However, this image of women as more reliable in remittance sending has also been questioned-given its ambiguity and contextspecificity and the reiteration of gender stereotypes it entails (Kunz, 2008(Kunz, , 2018. Studies have shown that gender relations affect remittance decisions and amounts in conjunction with a migrant's age, generation, and life cycle status (Piper, 2005;Tacoli & Mabala, 2010), the household composition (De la Briere, De Janvry, Sadoulet, & Lambert, 2002;Rindfuss et al, 2012), and a migrant's marital status and role in relation to their household of origin (Harper & Zubida, 2018;Platt et al, 2016;Semyonov & Gorodzeisky, 2005). In studying Philippine migrants, Semyonov and Gorodzeisky (2005), for instance, find men in their role as family fathers remitting to their wives and children to send higher amounts than women, in both relative and absolute terms.…”

Section: Gender Remittances and Their Impactmentioning

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Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand

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Sakdapolrak

2020

Population Space and Place

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Remittances play a central role in debates on migration and development as well as migration as adaptation to climate change. We seek to contribute to the growing body of literature that addresses the role of gender relations for remittance sending and usage. Based on multisited qualitative research on rural-urban migration in Thailand, we apply the concept of translocal social resilience to expound the multilocal and intersectional dimension of remittances and their impact on social resilience.Building on typical constellations of remittance transfer and usage, the paper accentuates how gender, generational relations, and the household's socio-economic status shape remittance practices and their effects on social resilience across space. We can thus conclude that addressing intersecting socio-spatial levels and axes of difference enhances the understanding of remittance potentials for resilience, which also enriches research that frames migration as a means of adaptation.

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Section: Gender Remittances and Their Impactmentioning

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Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand

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Sakdapolrak

2020

Population Space and Place

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“…According to Aleya: 'Whatever you see today in this homestead is all her contribution. ' Harper and Zubida (2018) showed in the Israeli context that remittances can render migrants visible by generating new roles in the family and generating a positive selfimage. Bangladesh is no exception.…”

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Remittance practices in rural Bangladesh: A gendered analysis

Rashid

2022

Migration and Development

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This paper presents a gendered analysis of remittance behaviour in households that depend on overseas earnings. Applying the conceptualisation of gender as 'doing' and 'performativity' to migrant communities in Bangladesh, it discovers the functioning of various subject positions adopted by men and women as remitters, receivers, providers and managers. While these fluid subjectivities face opposition from the prevailing gender norms, which see men as the providers and women as the carers of the household, the paper depicts the multiple ways in which men and women conform to and negotiate with these norms and thus normalise their position. It offers fresh insights into the linkages between remittance practices and gender beyond essentialist claims of dependency, empowerment and development.

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“…(These have changed over time but have included agriculture, construction, hospitality, ethnic cookery/ catering, nursing/caregiving.) To ensure rotating temporary migrants, the visas are time-delimited and may only be renewed a set number of times, forcing repatriation at the visa sunset (Harper and Zubida, 2017a). Caregivers' regulations are special and have evolved over the last decade and are now predicated on the lifespan of employers/clients.…”

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“…Thus, migrants (and their children) cannot adjust legal status, regardless of acculturation or birthplace. Since status cannot be adjusted, Israel uses deportation as the primary mechanism to compel repatriation, and many workers choose to work without valid permits (Harper and Zubida 2017a). Migrants lacking residency status risk detention and deportation for improved remunerative conditions and extended stays (Interview with Hanna Zohar, August 2011; Kemp, 2007;Willen, 2007;Willen, 2019).…”

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Thinking about the meaning of time among temporary labor migrants in Israel

Harper

Zubida

2020

Time & Society

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When thinking about time and migration, time appears to be the obvious unchangeable independent variable—linear, uniform, and constant—affecting migrants’ experiences. However, what if we reimagine time as a dependent variable affected by migration? Time, thus, is not linear but layered, malleable, and potentially even liquid. Migrants weave time with space, generating past, present, and future, forming multiple simultaneous “heres,” “theres,” and “in-betweens.” A subset of migrants, temporary labor migrants, provides an interesting opportunity to consider how migration affects time (including the perception of time). States permit temporary labor migrants to immigrate only because they consent to emigrate after a predetermined, contracted period. In this paper, we consider what it means to enter into such “migration time” arrangements that warp, transform, and curtail time for migrants, their children, employers, community members, left-behind families, and the state. Migrants’ children who typically exist outside state-brokered labor migration deals develop alternate timescapes from their migrant parents. Based on the analysis of interview data and complementary follow-up conversations with 43 temporary labor migrants in Israel from 11 different countries, we examine how the migration process creates nonlinear time and how migrants discover, lament, manage, enjoy, and struggle with multiple timescapes. Building on the work of Saulo Cwerner, we replicate his model on time and migration to show general patterns for immigrants and modes particular to temporary labor migrants including time ruptures, freedom time (short-term opportunities), and ambiguous time (fuzzy continuities).

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Being seen: visibility, families and dynamic remittance practices

Cited by 11 publications

References 71 publications

Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand

Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand

Remittance practices in rural Bangladesh: A gendered analysis

Thinking about the meaning of time among temporary labor migrants in Israel

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