From individual motivations to social determinants
Towards a Sociology of Migrants' Remittances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4388903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hasan Mahmud (0000-0001-5321-203X, Northwestern Medicine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 237-238 |
| Pages | 175-188 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/issj.12247 |
| OpenAlex | W3087463626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 64 |
Migrants may send remittances for a variety of reasons. Studies adopting the perspective of the new economics of labour migration (NEML) identify migrants' altruism or self-interest as the motivation for their remittances. This paper first recognises the limits of the NELM perspective due to its utilitarian conception of migrants' altruism and inability to distinguish between altruism and self-interest. The discussion also reveals a preponderance of quantitative studies examining remittance utilisation in the origin communities in the absence of the migrants who are sending the funds. These studies must necessarily indirectly deduce migrants' motivation to send remittances, leading to post hoc and inconsistent interpretations. In a review of the existing literature, this paper identifies alternative conceptualisations of migrants' agency and structures embedding their remittances as well as emergent properties of both their agency and those structures. Lastly, it outlines a heuristic typology to empirically study migrants' remittances following Durkheim's approach to suicide, demonstrating the usefulness of this typology by citing examples from the literature as well as reflecting the author's dissertation research
Agency (philosophy) · Altruism (biology) · Economic growth · Economics · Perspective (graphical) · Positive economics · Remittance · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Typology · Variety (cybernetics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
Migration for Better Jobs or Better Living
Exploring the drivers of remittance flows to Vietnam in the context of globalization
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sri Lankan migrants in Qatar
Family Chains
Gender, remittances and household entrepreneurship
Moral Remittances at War
Remesas, género y cadenas globales de cuidados. El caso de la población de origen latinoamericano en la CAE
Beyond Economics
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey
Women's Migration to Cities and Their Multifaceted Transformation
Remittances’ in question
Who decides what? Women's decision-making after men's out-migration in the mountainous communities of Pakistan
Family obligations and social change
Sacrificing Families
The determinants of migrant remittances
Determinants of Remittances
Metropolitan Migrants
Migration and the Search for Home
Women in Motion
Realist Social Theory
Families Caring Across Borders
Home Bound
Divided by Borders
Savings in Transnational Households
Negotiating Migration, Performing Gender
The Family and Sociological Research
Home
Migration, Crisis, and the Global Labour Market
The Determinants of International Remittances in Developing Countries
International Migration, Workers’ Remittances and Permanent Income Hypothesis
The Emerging Migration State
Conceptualizing International Labor Migration
Scripting Remittances
Conceptualizing Transnational Engagements
Altruistic and contractual remittances between male and female migrants and households in rural Thailand
Household Composition, Family Migration, and Community Context
Altruism
Is Altruism Part of Human Nature? Toward a Theoretical Foundation for the Helping Professions
Motivations to Remit
The Functions and Reproduction of Migrant Labor
Global Migrants, Local Lives
Altruism and Sociological Theory
A Fat Lady in a Corset
The Division of Labour in Society
The New Economics of Labour Migration and the Role of Remittances in the Migration Process
Egoism, Altruism, Anomie, and Fatalism
The Gendered Politics of Remittances in Ghanaian Transnational Families
Migrant remittances and the web of family obligations
The Politics of Immigration Policy
Transnational Islamic charity as everyday rituals
The dual roles of transnational daughters and transnational wives
Homeward bound
The meanings of migration, remittances and gifts
Remittances and inequality in Cape Verde
You must think ofFamilia
Family and Collective Remittances to Mexico
The Early-Morning Phonecall
Towards a Sociology of Migrant Remittances in Asia
Transnationalism and Entrepreneurial Migrancy in Naples, Italy
Some Reflections on Structure and Agency in Migration Theory
Go West Young Man
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Transnational Villagers
Sentiment and Services
Social Determinants of Remitting Practices among Bangladeshi Migrants in Japan
The culture of Mexican migration
It's my money
Changing meanings of family in personal relationships
Economic Well-Being in Salvadoran Transnational Families
Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |