Return to Sender - The Moral Economy of Peru's Migrant Remittances

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-520-28473-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paerregaard, Karsten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.