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Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change

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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Theorizing Remittances — Social Positioning and the Making of Migrant Subjectivity
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    Chapter 2 Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Remittances: New Perspectives on “Guest Worker” Research in Austria
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    Chapter 3 “You Can’t Have Your Pudding and Eat It”? Remittances and Development in Yugoslavia, 1918–1989
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    Chapter 4 “Money Can’t Buy Me Love”: Remittances, Return Migration, and Family Relations in Serbia (1960s–2000s)
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    Chapter 5 “Dear Brother, Please, Send Me Some More Dollars…”: Transatlantic Migration and Historic Remittance Between the Habsburg Empire and the United States of America (1890–1930s)
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    Chapter 6 Standing Waves: Remittances as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities
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    Chapter 7 The Confluence of Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity
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    Chapter 8 Remittances and the Destination State: A Comparison of Bangladeshi Migrants in Japan and the USA
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    Chapter 9 “We Do Solidarity, Not Charity”: The Collective Remittance Practices of Moldovan Migrants
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    Chapter 10 Transformative Effects of Remittances on Health Behavior, Community Resilience, and Gender Dynamics in Burkina Faso
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    Chapter 11 The Afterlife of Migrant Gifts
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    Chapter 12 Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances: Transformations of a Knife Across Borders
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    Chapter 13 Remittances and Migrating Spaces in the Context of Turkish, Vietnamese, and Korean Remigration
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    Chapter 14 Material Remittances in the Context of Seasonal Work: Social and Economic Change in Vanuatu
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    Chapter 15 Remittances as a Game Changer for Climate Change Adaptation Financing for the Most Vulnerable: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ghana
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    Chapter 16 Transnational Society in Light of Environmental Change
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    Chapter 17 Political Remittances: The Post-war Transformation of the Tamil Swiss Diaspora
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    Chapter 18 Receiving the Gift of the Master’s Voice: How White Western Academic Paradigms Shape Knowledge and Remittance Economies: A De-Colonial Perspective
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    Chapter 19 Conclusion: A Transformative Perspective on Remittances—Towards the Future of Transnational Society
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Title
Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
Published by
Springer International Publishing, August 2023
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-81504-2
ISBNs
978-3-03-081503-5, 978-3-03-081504-2
Editors

Silke Meyer, Claudius Ströhle

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Country Count As %
Unknown 14 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 2 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 7%
Student > Bachelor 1 7%
Researcher 1 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 8 57%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 3 21%
Unspecified 2 14%
Arts and Humanities 1 7%
Unknown 8 57%