Return to Sender
The Moral Economy of Peru's Migrant Remittances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20031806 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Paerregaard (0000-0002-0973-2238, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 336 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Return to Sender (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/california/9780520284739.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4237767480 |
| Open Library | OL29251316M |
| ISBN | 9780520284739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This book is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for them 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. The author challenges unqualified approval of remittances as beneficial resources of development for home communities and important income for home countries. The book finds a more complex situation in which remittances can also create dependency and deprivation
Business · Communication source · Dependency (UML) · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Emigration · Ethnography · Geography · Sociology · Anthropology · Engineering · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Economic aspects · Economic conditions · Emigrant remittances · emigration and immigration · Peru · Peruvians · politics and government · Social aspects
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |