Return to Sender - The Moral Economy of Perus Migrant Remittances

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "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 Zusammenfassung Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities. The book draws on first-hand ethnographic data from North and South America, Europe, and Japan to describe how Peruvians remit to relatives at home, collectively raise money to organize development projects in their regions of origin, and invest savings in business and other activities. Karsten Paerregaard challenges unqualified approval of remittances as beneficial resources of development for home communities and important income for home countries. He finds a more complex situation in which remittances can also create dependency and deprivation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Karsten Paerregaard, Paerregaard Karsten
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2015
• EAN: 9780520284739
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28473-9
• 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