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Zusatztext 68272656 Informationen zum Autor Anna Lindley is a Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The study on which this book is based was carried out while working at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. Klappentext As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. Despite considerable research on the impact of migration and remittances in countries of origin - increasingly viewed as a source of development capital - still little is known about refugees' remittances to conflict-affected countries because such funds are most often seen as a source of conflict finance. This book explores the dynamics, infrastructure, and far-reaching effects of remittances from the perspectives of people in the Somali regions and the diaspora. With conflict driving mass displacement, Somali society has become progressively transnational, its vigorous remittance economy reaching from the heart of the global North into wrecked cities, refugee camps, and remote rural areas. By 'following the money' the author opens a window on the everyday lives of people caught up in processes of conflict, migration, and development. The book demonstrates how, in the interstices of state disruption and globalisation, and in the shadow of violence and political uncertainty, life in the Somali regions goes on, subject to complex transnational forms of social, economic, and political innovation and change. Zusammenfassung As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines! this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. Despite considerable research on the impact of migration and remittances in countries of origin - increasingly viewed as a source of development capital - still little is known about refugees' remittances to conflict-affected countries because such funds are most often seen as a source of conflict finance. This book explores the dynamics! infrastructure! and far-reaching effects of remittances from the perspectives of people in the Somali regions and the diaspora. With conflict driving mass displacement! Somali society has become progressively transnational! its vigorous remittance economy reaching from the heart of the global North into wrecked cities! refugee camps! and remote rural areas. By 'following the money' the author opens a window on the everyday lives of people caught up in processes of conflict! migration! and development. The book demonstrates how! in the interstices of state disruption and globalisation! and in the shadow of violence and political uncertainty! life in the Somali regions goes on! subject to complex transnational forms of social! economic! and political innovation and change. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1. Migration, Conflict and Development: Situating Refugees' Remittances Migration-Development Linkages Conflict and Local-Global Connections The Livelihoods of Refugees Approach Chapter 2. The Somali Context: People and Money on the Move Nomadism, Sedentarism, Urbanisation Extra-regional Connections Postcolonial Republic: Refugee Arrivals, Labour Migrants and Political Exiles Civil War and Diasporisation Feedback: a Wartime Remittance Economy Xawilaad: Crisis as a Business Opportunity From 'Dirty Money' to 'Humanitarian Lifeline'? Beyond Collapse: Grasping Continuities and Change Chapter 3. Migration and Remittances in a Precarious State: the View from Hargeisa Oppression, Insurgency and Crisis: Diaspora Dimensions ...
