Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family

   1. Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family

      • Lan Anh Hoang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

      Pages 1-23

3. Remittances as Gendered Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Transnational Remittances and Gendered Status Enhancement in Rural Bangladesh

      • Nitya Rao

      Pages 27-49

   3. Remittances and Women’s Agency: Managing Networks of Obligation among Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand

      • Kyoko Kusakabe, Ruth Pearson

      Pages 50-81

   4. “Good” Sons and “Dutiful” Daughters: A Structural Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of the Migration and Remittance Behaviour of Northern Thai International Migrants

      • Teresa Sobieszczyk

      Pages 82-110

   5. “So They Remember Me When I’m Gone”: Remittances, Fatherhood and Gender Relations of Filipino Migrant Men

      • Steven McKay

      Pages 111-135

4. Remittances and Generational Dynamics of Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing and Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka

      • Michele Ruth Gamburd

      Pages 139-164

   3. Differential Impacts of Migration on the Family Networks of Older People in Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis

      • Philip Kreager, Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill

      Pages 165-193

   4. Migration, Remittances and Social and Spatial Organisation of Rural Households in China

      • C. Cindy Fan

      Pages 194-226

   5. Filipino Children and the Affective Economy of Saving and Being Saved: Remittances and Debts in Transnational Migrant Families

      • Cheryll Alipio

      Pages 227-254

5. (Non-)Remittance and the Family in Crisis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255

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   2. Rethinking Remittances through Emotion: Filipina Migrant Labourers in Singapore and Transnational Families Undone

      • Sallie Yea

      Pages 257-282

   3. Transnational Labour Migration, Debts and Family Economics in Vietnam

      • Lan Anh Hoang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

      Pages 283-310

6. Back Matter

   Pages 311-331

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The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend to become a primary currency of care, the making or breaking of the family unit is mainly contingent on how individuals handle remittance processes.

• Migration
• remittances
• family
• gender
• Asia
• development
• household economics
• labour
• China
• migrants
• migration
• Vietnam

“This volume, edited by Hoang and Yeoh, is a valuable addition to qualitative research on impacts of migration, building upon previous works that examine local–global networks responsible for, as well as created through, processes of migration. … this book pays particular attention to the intertwining of the symbolic and economic significance of remittances, and its impact on the family unit. … This is a highly recommended text for scholars researching migration, gender, Asia and international development.” (Aparna Parikh, Progress in Development Studies, Vol. 17 (3), 2017)

• University of Melbourne, Australia

  Lan Anh Hoang

• National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Cheryll Alipio, University of Queensland, Australia Cindy C. Fan, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Michele Ruth Gamburd, Portland State University, USA Philip Kreager, Somerville College, Oxford University, USA Kyoko Kusakabe, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Steve McKay, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Ruth Pearson, University of Leeds, UK Nitya Rao, University of East Anglia, UK Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill, University of Southampton, UK Teresa Sobieszczyk, University of Montana, USA Sallie Yea, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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