Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe

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Explores migrant's global social remittances and their impacts on Europe. Exploring the topic from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, geography and political science, the authors present empirical analyses covering a wide selection of international contexts across Europe, India, Iraq, Bolivia, Congo, Lebanon and Thailand. The book presents migrants not as Europe's 'cultural others' but as an integral part of Europe's global connection, and scrutinises the flows of knowledge, ideas, money, objects and values which result from the process of migration, rather than the migrants themselves. Read more... Abstract: Exploring migrants' global social remittances and their impacts on Europe from disciplines including sociology, anthropology, geography and political science, this book presents migrants not as 'cultural others but as a part of Europe s global connection, with the flows of knowledge, ideas, money, objects and values which result from migration. Read more... Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Migration and Remittances in a Global Europe (Magdalena Nowicka, Vojin Šerbedžija)....Pages 1-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-25 Reflexive Mediterranisation: Mobilities, Economies, and the Cultural Remittance of Imaginaries (Regina Römhild)....Pages 27-47 An Inside-Out Approach to Social Remittances: Linking Migration and Social Change in Poland (Anne White)....Pages 49-69 Structuring Social Remittances: Transnational Networks of Polish Migrants (Łukasz Krzyżowski)....Pages 71-93 Front Matter ....Pages 95-98 The Emergence of a ‘Diasporic Political Field’: A Case for Political Remittances (Paul Tabar, Wahib Maalouf)....Pages 99-120 A Conceptual and Empirical Critique of ‘Social Remittances’: Iraqi Kurdish Migrants Narrate Resistance (Erlend Paasche)....Pages 121-141 Dersim Across Borders: Political Transmittances Between the Kurdish-Turkish Province Tunceli and Europe (Sabine Strasser, Mustafa Akçınar)....Pages 143-163 Front Matter ....Pages 165-168 Circulating Remittances: Cross-Border Negotiation of Family Values Among Thai Migrant Women and Their Dutch Husbands (Panitee Suksomboon Brown)....Pages 169-189 Transacting Care Transnationally: Remittances and Agency Within Global Care Chains (Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy)....Pages 191-210 Transnational Health Insurances as Social Remittances: The Case of Congolese Immigrants in Belgium (Jean-Michel Lafleur, Olivier Lizin)....Pages 211-233 Front Matter ....Pages 235-238 The Politics of Remittances: Implications for Development (Thomas Lacroix)....Pages 239-258 The Circulation of Transnational Islamic Charity (Kaja Borchgrevink, Marta Bivand Erdal)....Pages 259-280 Skilled Indians in Europe: Knowledge Transfer and Social Impact (Gabriela Tejada)....Pages 281-301 Back Matter ....Pages 303-321