Sending Money Home in Conflict Settings: Revisiting Migrant Remittances

Rodima‐Taylor, Daivi

doi:10.1353/gia.2022.0008

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“…These inequalities can be evident nationally, leading to inequity and potentially significant difficulties in SSA African countries. For instance, one-third of Africa's most educated nationals are believed to live outside the continent, primarily in Western Europe and North America [5,7,8]. Zambia, for example, had 1600 medical practitioners a few years ago, but barely 400 are currently working [9,10].…”

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On the Sustainable Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Remittances, Human Capital Flight, and Brain Drain Matter?

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To solve the active macroeconomic challenges of remittances, human capital flight, and brain drain facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from the perspective of costs and benefits tradeoffs for achieving Sustainable Development Goal eight (SDGs-8) targets by 2030 and the recipient communities’ wellbeing, this study investigates the sustainable economic growth in SSA: Do remittances, human capital flight, and brain drain matter? Autoregressive-Distributive Lag (ARDL) and the Error-Correction Mechanism (ECM) were used. Thus, this research is led by push–pull, altruism, and social network theories. The ARDL showed that remittances and trade positively affect economic growth. However, human capital flight, poverty, corruption, and inequality negatively affect economic growth. The co-efficient of ECTt−1 is ascertained to be negative (−0.266282) with a significant statistical value of 1% (i.e., 0.0123). Therefore, the annual requirement to restore equilibrium convergence is 26.62%. The study concludes that SSA may achieve their sustainable economic growth target, particularly by formalizing remittances and human capital flight and brain drain into the financial, economic system in SSA by 2030, since restoration to long-term convergence will take less than nine years. Enabling a labor market that offers decent work and wages, along with trade and remittance policies for sustainable growth, are recommended.

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“…The specifi c constraints and affordances of applications, platforms, algorithms, mobile phones, and modes of digital media such as videogames, and various other devices and infrastructures can be seen as providing material bases for cryptopolitical activities. Our anthology therefore contributes to the broader study of communicative infrastructures as socio-technical assemblages with their material, ideational, and peopled dimensions (see also Bernal 2021;Rodima-Taylor andGrimes 2019, Rodima-Taylor 2021).…”

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“…In Kenya, an estimated one-third of the adult population belongs in a savings group (Gichuru 2014), while in South Africa, about 810,000 stokvel groups mobilize around 11 million participants and manage up to R50 billion (over US$3 million) a year (Pillay 2022). The groups are also increasingly popular among the diaspora and migrant communities, mobilizing remittances and facilitating social support (Ardener 2010;Hossein 2017;Rodima-Taylor 2022a)…”

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“…Self-help groups can be found in many areas of Africa, including the chama groups of Kenya, isusu of Nigeria, and stokvel of South Africa (Ardener and Burman 1995;Ardener 2010). A considerable rise has occurred in these groups with the neoliberal restructuring reforms of the 1980s-1990s, with a decline in formal sector employment and state-funded producer cooperatives (Rodima-Taylor 2014;Tripp 1997). As my two-year fi eldwork in northeast Tanzania revealed, a variety of self-help groups were widespread among the Kuria people.…”

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Rodima-Taylor

2023

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Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, “cryptopolitics,” are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media toconsider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age.

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Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives enduring widespread structural violence

Del Real,

Ramirez

2024

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Homeland conditions shape how migrants and refugees perceive the purpose and impact of their remittances (i.e. financial support). Countries of origin with low violence and stable conditions allow migrants to remit with hopes of improving their non-migrant relatives’ long-term material circumstances, while homelands with armed conflict limit remittance objectives to securing recipients’ immediate safety and basic survival. However, scholarship has under-theorized how homelands with widespread structural violence–economic devastation resulting in deprivation for most of the population–impact migrants’ remittance practices and perceptions. Drawing on in-depth interviews with forced Venezuelan migrants in Chile and Argentina–whose homeland has an emerging autocrat and economic sanctions that have resulted in widespread structural violence–we find that interviewees are highly concerned about relatives’ survival in Venezuela. They remit with resignation to secure relatives’ bare subsistence while grappling with their inability to counter the economic deterioration, infrastructural decay, and essential goods shortages that are decreasing their relatives’ lifespan. Broadly, findings indicate that widespread structural violence reshapes migrants’ transnational care; as deprivation spreads in the homeland, migrants are increasingly aware that the impact of their remittances is diminishing and seek to fulfill their relatives’ immediate basic needs.

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Sending Money Home in Conflict Settings: Revisiting Migrant Remittances

Cited by 4 publications

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On the Sustainable Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Remittances, Human Capital Flight, and Brain Drain Matter?

On the Sustainable Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Remittances, Human Capital Flight, and Brain Drain Matter?

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Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives enduring widespread structural violence

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