Migration and social remittances in a global Europe. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Magdalena Nowicka, Vojin Šerbedžija, editors.
• Editors: Nowicka, Magdalena; Šerbedžija, Vojin, 1985-
• Contents: 0. An Introduction to the Debate: Migration and Remittances in a Global Europe; Magdalena Nowicka and Vojin Šerbedžija.- Part 1: Circulating Social Remittances within Europe.- 1. Reflexive Mediterranisation: Mobilities, Economies, and the Cultural Remittance of Imaginaries; Regina Römhild.- 2. An Inside-out Approach to Social Remittances: Linking Migration and Social Change in Poland; Anne White.- 3. Structuring Social Remittances: Transnational Networks of Polish Migrants; Łukasz Krzyżowski.- Part 2: Social Remittances and Political Engagement.- 4. The Emergence of a 'Diasporic Political Field': A case for Political Remittances; Paul Tabarand Wahib Maalouf.- 5. A Conceptual and Empirical Critique of 'Social Remittances': Iraqi Kurdish Migrants Narrate Resistance; Erlend Paasche.- 6. Dersim across Borders: Political Transmittances between the Kurdish-Turkish Province Tunceli and Europe; Sabine Strasser and Mustafa Akçınar.- Part 3: Family Commitments, Gender Roles and Remitting.- 7. Circulating Remittances: Cross-Border Negotiation of Family Values among Thai Migrant Women and Their Dutch Husbands; Panitee Suksomboon Brown.- 8.Transacting Care Transnationally: Remittances and Agency within Global Care Chains; Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy.- 9. Transnational Health Insurances as Social Remittances: The case of Congolese Immigrants in Belgium; Jean-Michel Lafleur and Olivier Lizin.- Part 4: Social Remittances and Social Transformations.- 10.The Politics of Remittances: Implications for Development;Thomas Lacroix.- 11. The Circulation of Transnational Islamic Charity; Kaja Borchgrevink and Marta Bivand Erdal.- 12. Skilled Indians in Europe: Knowledge Transfer and Social Impact; Gabriela Tejad.- 13.Concluding Remarks;Roland Robertson.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (321 pages)
• Subjects: 304.84; Social sciences; Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Political Science -- Globalization; Globalization; Migration; Globalization; Social Science -- Emigration & Immigration; Migration, immigration & emigration
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137601261
• Related ISBNs: 9781137601254
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