Social Remittances Revisited

被引:292
作者
Levitt, Peggy [1 ,2 ]
Lamba-Nieves, Deepak [3 ]
机构
[1] Wellesley Coll, Dept Sociol, Wellesley, MA 02481 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Transnat Studies Initiat, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] MIT, Dept Urban Studies & Planning, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
关键词
Social Remittances; Transnational Migration; Immigration; Globalisation; Remittances; Development; MIGRATION;
D O I
10.1080/1369183X.2011.521361
中图分类号
C921 [人口统计学];
学科分类号
摘要
In this article we revisit the concept of social remittances. First, we show how people's experiences before migrating strongly influence what they do in the countries where they settle; this, in turn, affects what they remit back to their homelands. Second, just as scholars differentiate between individual and collective economic remittances, we also distinguish between individual and collective social remittances. While individuals communicate ideas and practices to each other in their roles as friends, family members or neighbours, they also communicate in their capacity as organisational actors, which has implications for organisational management and capacity-building. Finally, we argue that social remittances can scale up from local-level impacts to affect regional and national change and scale out to affect other domains of practice.
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