Remittances, Economic Migrants and Global Care Networks; How remittances can be framed as forms of care and reciprocity among economic mi-grants and their families
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2024-07-14
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The topic of migration has long been discussed and critiqued in the social sciences and other disciplines. Relatively new, however, are studies on transnationality that can be said to be intertwined deeply with the concept of migration. Transnationalism explores social relations and how they seem to span the borders of nation-states, therefore connecting the local to the global. Through the use of qualitative research methods, this thesis will attempt to analyse remittances by framing them as a form of care within transnational families of economic migrants from lower- and middle-class income countries (LMICs). Remittances are often framed solemnly as (economic) transactions between economic migrants and their families “back home”. However, this thesis will argue that they, in fact, reflect deeply rooted notions of reciprocity and care that enforce family bonds and back this up through academic sources as well as qualitative research methods.
Keywords: care practices, economic migrants, reciprocity, remittances, transnationality
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen