“Sending so much more than money”: exploring social remittances and transnational mobility

Isaakyan, Irina; Triandafyllidou, Anna

doi:10.1080/01419870.2016.1259491

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“…Here you learn how to be a citizen" (Brussels, 21 Oct 2014). Migrant women's citizenship in Belgium is also used to send civic social remittances to their countries of origin and to reclaim their citizenship status there as well (Isaakyan and Triandafyllidou 2016). Nonetheless, as Belgium began to experience the aftermath of the global financial meltdown in 2008, the interviewees' idea of Brussels as an inclusive city was put to the test.…”

Section: Challenging One's Place In the Belgian Welfare State: From The Global City Of Brusselsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social remittances have a direct impact on the way migrants organize a range of transnational activities, such as collective initiatives, development projects, or political elections (Collyer 2014;Lafleur 2011;Morales and Giugni 2011). Indeed, the mobile and malleable nature of social remittances (Isaakyan and Triandafyllidou 2016) creates social, political, and cultural capital that migrants exploit in the city where they live.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Latin American Transnational Political Engagement: Steering Civic Movements and Cultural Repertoires from the Global City of Brussels

Lara-Guerrero

Vivas-Romero

2020

Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections Between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe

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Migrants are active civic agents participating in transnational social movements. They create, transform, and exploit transnational networks to engage in political movements in both their homeland and the hostland. In this chapter, we demonstrate that migrants accumulate political and cultural knowledge, symbols, emotions of hope, nostalgia, and political practices as a result of their emigration experience. Using empirical examples of Latin American migrants living in Brussels, we argue that social remittances shape the way migrants: (1) develop their political and cultural repertoires of contention; (2) constitute their social identities and networks influencing their political behavior; and (3) embody the ideologies, ideas, and norms of their homeland, while being influenced by the multiple cities in which they have lived. We conclude that Latin American migrants have managed to develop and sustain transnational fields of social and political mobilization to defend their politi-cal struggles and ideals from Brussels itself.

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Section: Challenging One's Place In the Belgian Welfare State: From The Global City Of Brusselsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Latin American Transnational Political Engagement: Steering Civic Movements and Cultural Repertoires from the Global City of Brussels

Lara-Guerrero

Vivas-Romero

2020

Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections Between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe

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“…In sum, the existing literature on remittances has productively unpacked the "point of sale" of remittances (Maurer et al, 2013), their affective economies (Hudson, 2015, p. 246), their cultural content (Carling, 2014;Isaakyan and Triandafyllidou, 2017), and the motives of senders and of recipients (Levitt, 1998;Levitt and Lamba-Nieves, 2011;Lacroix et al, 2016;Vari-Lavoisier, 2016). More broadly, it has also pointed toward the place of remittances and digital payments in the business of poverty capital, or what Maurer (2015a) aptly terms "poverty payment."…”

Section: The Remittance Industry From the Point Of Sale To Cross-bordmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain Technologies and Remittances: From Financial Inclusion to Correspondent Banking

Rella

2019

Front. Blockchain

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Since their emergence, blockchain technologies have shown potential for financial inclusion and the formalization of remittances. Recently, regulators and practitioners have studied the capabilities of blockchain technologies to streamline and, potentially, replace the infrastructure underpinning cross-border payments and remittances, i.e., correspondent banking. Correspondent Banking Relationships, also called "Nostro-Vostro accounts," are continuous bilateral arrangements that enable banks to provide services in countries where they do not directly operate. After the Global Financial Crisis, this infrastructure has undergone "de-risking," i.e., a reduction of correspondent accounts and their concentration in fewer financial institutions, with especially detrimental effects on costs and speed of retail cross-border remittances. The existing literature has mostly focused on the point of sale of remittances, often overlooking correspondent banking. This paper, in contrast, connects remittances, blockchain technologies, and correspondent banking with the growing interest of critical social science in the significance of payment infrastructures for the constitution and configuration of money, finance, and markets. By unpacking the critical case of Ripple, this paper shows that blockchain applications to remittances focus on profits, risks, costs, interoperability, "trapped liquidity," and "idle capital" in correspondent banking accounts, rather than on financial inclusion per se. In so doing, this paper contributes to critical social studies literature on the formalization of remittances, understood as the transformation of remittances into a market frontier. Blockchain applications are shown to foster, rather than resist, remittances formalization, and they are presently being incorporated into existing infrastructures, business models, and regulatory structures. Rather than representing radically alternative monetary systems, blockchain technologies are the latest iteration of technologies heralding frictionless capitalism. Lastly, this paper shows the tensions and ambiguities inherent to interoperability and formalization. Blockchain technologies are dynamic in a way that problematizes dichotomies such formal-informal and mainstream-alternative. Hence, rather than providing a quantitative assessment of the impact of blockchain technologies, this paper investigates the ambiguities and tensions in the political economy and imaginaries inscribed in the materiality and design of blockchain-enabled payment systems.

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“…Some authors also differentiate between monetary and social remittances. Social remittances could be ‘(cross) cultural social remittances; social remittances related to civic participation or local community development within the framework of human ecology (ecological remittances); and ideas and practices of political activism (political social remittances)’ (Isaakyan , p. 6).…”

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Transnational Behaviour of Ukrainian Remitting Migrants

Janská

Pauknerová

Koropecká

2017

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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In connection with the growing trend of transnationalism in international migration flows, the number of transnational communities has been increasing. The aim of this study is to describe the transnational dynamics and processes using the example of remitting Ukrainian workers in Czechia. The research was conducted with immigrants in Czechia and their families in Ukraine. More than 50 interviews were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Based on the remittances sent, marital status, gender, mobility and locality of immigrants, a typology was created, in which the specifics of transnational processes were assessed. We argue that different behaviour of transnational migrants is a reflection of their socio‐demographic characteristics (e.g. family status, education or number of children), which may change over time.

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“Sending so much more than money”: exploring social remittances and transnational mobility

Cited by 34 publications

References 36 publications

Latin American Transnational Political Engagement: Steering Civic Movements and Cultural Repertoires from the Global City of Brussels

Latin American Transnational Political Engagement: Steering Civic Movements and Cultural Repertoires from the Global City of Brussels

Blockchain Technologies and Remittances: From Financial Inclusion to Correspondent Banking

Transnational Behaviour of Ukrainian Remitting Migrants

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