Return to Sender - The Moral Economy of Perus Migrant Remittances

"A detailed and nuanced ethnographic ‘life history’ account both of migrants and their remittances from a single sending region, in this case, Peru.” —Linda Seligmann, George Mason University

"Very valuable, extensive, and comprehensive research.” —Manuel Orozco, senior associate and director of remittances and development at the Inter-American Dialogue

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments

1. The Social Life of Remittances 
2. Peru: Migration and Remittances 
3. Compromiso: The Family Commitment 
4. Voluntad: The Community Commitment 
5. Superación: The Personal Commitment 
6. After Remittances

References
Index

About the author

Karsten Paerregaard is a professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg. He was a fellow at the Wilson Center in 2009-10.

Summary

Offers an account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities.

Product details

• Authors: Karsten Paerregaard, Paerregaard Karsten
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2015
• EAN: 9780520284746
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28474-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples