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Zelizer, Viviana A.; Tilly, Charles

doi:10.1016/s0079-7421(06)47001-8

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“…Remittances are not only important economically but they are also a means to express care for the recipients in a way that makes kinship, friendship and other social ties transparent. Social relations and categorical memberships precede remittances (Zelizer and Tilly 2006). Remittances reinforce previous social ties and commitments, which maintain trust networks and emotional bonds across distances (Tilly 2007:5).…”

Section: Remittances: Social Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remittances, Transnational Parenting, and the Children Left Behind: Economic and Psychological Implications

Castañeda

Buck

2011

The Latin Americanist

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Section: Remittances: Social Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remittances, Transnational Parenting, and the Children Left Behind: Economic and Psychological Implications

Castañeda

Buck

2011

The Latin Americanist

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“…While this is an improvement in the analysis, by their very disciplinary character, economists have focused on the economic aspects of migration. But in addition to being an economic aid, remittances are a way of keeping family ties and commitments at home (Zelizer and Tilly, 2006). Furthermore, besides sending money, migrants also bring about wide cultural changes (Levitt, 2001), which affect the cultural and economic context in which development is to occur.…”

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confidence: 99%

Living in Limbo: Transnational Households, Remittances and Development

Castañeda

2012

International Migration

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In recent years, the reception of remittances by migrant‐sending countries has been quantified and well advertised. Many have predicted economic development based on the magnitude of these aggregate figures, leaving aside the fact that new family arrangements, emigration expectations, consumption patterns and demographic changes impact the prospects for development. This paper shows how remittances link distant locations economically, socially and culturally creating unique transnational dynamics that shape development at both ends. I use multi‐sited ethnographic work conducted over seven years in different places of migrant origin and destination. The paper challenges common assumptions regarding the developmental effect of remittances, by contrasting the hyper‐rational, atomistic and perfectly informed theoretical actors of the neoclassical account with the complex actors who make their decisions on the basis of imperfect information, and the values and meanings constructed within a transnational web of family and community ties.

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“…People complement mental accounting systems with earmarking practices; they establish subdivisions within ostensibly homogeneous money and other media by signaling commitment of media segments to distinct relations and transactions. 24 (Zelizer and Tilly 2006)…”

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The Contributions of Charles Tilly to the Social Sciences

Tarrow

2018

Contemp Sociol

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Evaluating Charles Tilly's contributions to the social sciences is not an easy task: ''Chuck Tilly was a master of sociological thinking and methodology,'' wrote two of his former students when he passed away ten years ago; ''But he was sufficiently concerned about getting to the heart and dynamics of questions and topics that he never permitted the blinkers of disciplinary orthodoxy to stand in his way'' 2 (Michelson and Wellman 2008). This breadth helps to explain Tilly's greatness as a social scientist, although it makes synthesizing his contributions in his home discipline of sociology somewhat challenging-especially for a political scientist whose home discipline thinks of him more as student of war and state-building than as a general social theorist. 3 But on the tenth anniversary of his death, it seems like a good time to try.

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Cited by 25 publications

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Remittances, Transnational Parenting, and the Children Left Behind: Economic and Psychological Implications

Remittances, Transnational Parenting, and the Children Left Behind: Economic and Psychological Implications

Living in Limbo: Transnational Households, Remittances and Development

The Contributions of Charles Tilly to the Social Sciences

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