Pacific flows: The fluidity of remittances in the Cook Islands

Marsters, Evelyn; Lewis, Nick; Friesen, Wardlow

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8373.2006.00302.x

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“…These results are consistent with research on migration in the Pacific Islands (e.g. Bedford et al, 2000;Bryant, 1990;Connell, 1999Connell, , 2003Connell and Conway, 2000;Finau, 1993;Haberkorn, 1992;Loomis, 1990;Marsters et al, 2006). How this may change in the future, and the extent to which climate change may play a role, remains to be seen.…”

Section: Explaining the Resultssupporting

confidence: 91%

Climate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu

Mortreux

Barnett

2009

Global Environmental Change

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confidence: 91%

Climate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu

Mortreux

Barnett

2009

Global Environmental Change

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293

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“…With remittances, disaster-affected people are not powerless victims limited only to a role of aid recipient, but throughout their kinship networks are also providers of assistance. Likewise, remittances are not just significant financial resources that households use to absorb shocks and reduce their vulnerability to future disasters, but through communication and sharing, remittances contribute to the well-being of both remitters and recipients (Hammond 2011;Marsters et al 2006). Thus, remittances are also the expression of communities' social and cultural capitals, which may even be strengthened by this practice when disasters happen.…”

Section: Remittances As Powerful Mechanism To Face Disastersmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…They are part of people's financial resources, sometimes being one of their main sources of income (Connell et al 2005;Wu 2009). In addition, remittances constitute a social resource, as they involve people's social network and are based on kinship relationships and notion of reciprocity (Marsters et al 2006). Indeed, remittances involve not only money, but also have implications in terms of maintenance of traditional customs, expression of cultural values, and contribution to wellbeing, aspects which are often neglected by economic-based approaches since they often fail to integrate people's perceptions, feelings, and meanings related to such practice (Le De et al 2013).…”

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Remittances in the face of disasters: a case study of rural Samoa

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Gaillard

Friesen

et al. 2014

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In Samoa, like in most Small Island Developing States, remittances are important to sustain people's daily livelihood and become even more significant in the face of disasters. This study investigates the role of remittances in households' response to disasters. The focus is on Samoa, where participatory activities and interviews were carried out in coastal communities affected by the tsunami of 2009, and some of which were further hit by cyclone Evan in 2012. It is found that remittances are very fast in reaching those affected and remain high in the long term in order to cope with and recover from disaster. Moreover, remittances interact with external aid since remittances increase when external aid is low and decrease when external aid is higher. Households receiving remittances were able to deal more easily with immediate security needs and recovered more quickly than those with no or limited access to this resource. However, remittances also benefit the wider community, economically, socially, and culturally, for example in perpetuating local tradition. We conclude that governments and aid agencies should take into account remittances in their relief actions and recovery programs.

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“…Not only are reasons such as global financial crisis liable for reverse remittances, but factors such as education may also work as a powerful force (Marsters et al, 2006). For example, millions of self-financed students are studying beyond their own countries.…”

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Migrant Remittances in South Asia

Rahman¹,

Tan²,

Ullah³

2014

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The global political economy is in flux as a series of cumulative crises impacts its organization and governance. The IPE series has tracked its development in both analysis and structure over the last three decades. It has always had a concentration on the global South. Now the South increasingly challenges the North as the centre of development, also reflected in a growing number of submissions and publications on indebted Eurozone economies in Southern Europe.An indispensable resource for scholars and researchers, the series examines a variety of capitalisms and connections by focusing on emerging economies, companies and sectors, debates and policies. It informs diverse policy communities as the established trans-Atlantic North declines and 'the rest', especially the BRICS, rise.

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Pacific flows: The fluidity of remittances in the Cook Islands

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Climate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu

Climate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu

Remittances in the face of disasters: a case study of rural Samoa

Migrant Remittances in South Asia

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