Overview
This book focuses on migrant households instead of migrants, and explores the relationship between remittance income and household social resilience.
The book argues that remittances, while not being a quick fix for household poverty, do have a significant impact on the economic and cultural capital of rural households.
The book shows that remittances, in general, promote household social resilience by enabling their members to (a) pursue livelihood strategies for improving household life chances, and (b) diversify their livelihoods and which in turn enhance their capacity to adapt to environmental and economic change.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder is an assistant professor at the General Education Department at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) as well as a senior research fellow at the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has published several books and articles on migration, remittances, and development and climate change in respected international journals. He has also been involved in a number of studies under the Migration out of Poverty RPC at the University of Sussex, UK.
Vaughan Higgins is an associate professor of sociology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research interests encompass the sociology of science and technology, and the sociology of agriculture and food. He is co-editor of Food Security in Australia: Challenges and Prospects (2012), Assembling Neoliberalism: Expertise, Practices, Subjects (2017) and author of a wide range of journal articles.
Harry Ballis was head of Gippsland Business School, Federation University, Australia. Prior to that he worked as a senior lecturer in sociology at the School Applied Media and Social Sciences (SAMSS), Monash University, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of accounting and accountability; sociology of religion; work and organisations; and sociology of health. His recent publications include: Ethno Medicine and Dominant Medicine in Multicultural Australia: A Critical Realist Reflection on the Case of Korean-Australian Immigrants (2007); Challenge and Excitement – part one: Loving and Hating Rural Medicine (2009).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Remittance Income and Social Resilience among Migrant Households in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder, Vaughan Higgins, Peter Harry Ballis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57771-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59241-5Published: 30 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95871-9Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57771-9Published: 30 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Christianity, Migration