The determinants of migrant remittances

Carling, Jørgen

doi:10.1093/oxrep/grn022

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“…Low-income individuals are less likely to remit overall because they need their resources to subsist (Carling 2008); when they do remit, they may shoulder a greater burden than those with higher incomes. In the U.S., people who entered as humanitarian migrants (e.g., refugees, asylum seekers) report poorer health compared to those who migrated under employment visas (Akresh and Frank 2008).…”

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Remittances and risk of major depressive episode and sadness among new legal immigrants to the United States

Ambugo¹,

Yahirun²

2016

DemRes

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Remittances and risk of major depressive episode and sadness among new legal immigrants to the United States

Ambugo¹,

Yahirun²

2016

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“…Rapoport and Docquier, 2006;Carling, 2008;Bounie et al, 2013) and the determinants of the amounts remitted (e.g. Holst et al, 2008;Bollard et al, 2011).…”

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Migrants' Choice of Remittance Channel: Do General Payment Habits Play a Role?

Kosse

Vermeulen

2013

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Retail payments at a crossroads: economics, strategies and future policies This paper was submitted and accepted for the bi-annual retail payments conference titled "Retail payments at a crossroads: economics, strategies and future policies" organised by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Banque de France (BdF), on 21 and 22 October 2013 in Paris. The aim of the conference was to bring together academics, regulators and market participants to discuss possible developments and dynamics that will shape the future retail payments landscape. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayRetail payments provide a very important, yet not the most visible, infrastructure for the operation of the real economy. The way economic actors pay is not only important from a theoretical point of view but also from a policy perspective as the costs for providing payment services are substantial in most countries. As we are witnessing a transformation in these markets from traditional paper-based payment instruments towards electronic means of payments, the interaction between market forces and regulatory initiatives continues to be a determining factor for the future. This interaction, and the possible policy conclusions stemming from it, was the main theme of this conference.The selection and refereeing process of this paper has been carried out by the conference organisational team composed of experts from both organising institutions. As the conference was organised with a focus on the key issues above, papers were selected not only based on their standalone quality but also considering the relevance of the research subject to the themes of the event. Following the conference the selected papers have been asked to be revised according to the discussants assigned to the respective paper.The paper is released in order to make the working papers and accompanying research submitted to the conference publicly available. Non-technical summaryThis paper studies the determinants in migrants' choice of payment channel when sending money to relatives abroad. Migrant remittances are an important source of external finance for many countries.In 2012, globally-recorded remittance flows to developing countries reached USD 400 billion (World Bank, 2012). However, the actual amount of remittances sent is probably significantly larger, as a large but unknown share of remittances are transferred through unrecorded informal channels, such as money brought home on return and transfers throu...

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“…Visits may also be used as arenas for the display of acquired economic and cultural capitals (Hemming 2009), and thus give individuals an opportunity to enjoy their upward social mobility in Burundi. The important role of cultural capital such as citizenship in enabling mobility is also essential (Ley and Kobayashi 2005;Carling 2008;Ley 2010).…”

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“…The discourse on return migration within the political field in Norway and UK is dominated by the two countries' respective ministries of justice and their perspectives on the facilitation of return migration, both voluntary and involuntary. Carling (2008) introduces the concept of mobility resources to capture the role of legal status in creating inequalities between migrants and non-migrants. These resources may also yield asymmetries between different legal categories of migrants, which again determine the patterns of their transnational social practices, including return visits.…”

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Return Visits as a Marker of Differentiation in the Social Field

Sagmo

2014

Mobilities

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This article sets out to examine how differences within a migrant community are expressed through return visits, and particularly through visitors' narratives about their country of origin. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with Burundians living in Norway and the UK, I argue that the Burundian social field is characterized by two opposing positions regarding the possibility of return, and that the political field in the country of settlement plays an influential role in how those two positions are defined. Two narratives called 'instability and alienation' and 'progress and opportunities' from return visits are used to express support for one or the other of these two positions. I also argue that Bourdieu's conceptualization of social practice is highly relevant for migration research because it allows for analysing differences within a migration community, and that the advantages of combining habitus, capital and field should be further explored, both theoretically and comparatively.

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The determinants of migrant remittances

Cited by 207 publications

References 26 publications

Remittances and risk of major depressive episode and sadness among new legal immigrants to the United States

Remittances and risk of major depressive episode and sadness among new legal immigrants to the United States

Migrants' Choice of Remittance Channel: Do General Payment Habits Play a Role?

Return Visits as a Marker of Differentiation in the Social Field

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