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Meyer, Silke. Remittances As Social Practices and Agents of Change : The Future of Transnational Society. 1st ed. Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2023. ©2023. 1 online resource (468 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Theorizing Remittances - Social Positioning and the Making of Migrant Subjectivity -- Transnationalism: A Society in the Making -- What Are Remittances? -- From Ways of Being and Belonging to Becoming: Remittance Scripts and Migrant Subjectivity -- Ways of Being and Belonging: Remittance Scripts and Social Positioning -- Becoming: Remittances and the Production of Migrant Subjectivity -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Historical Perspectives in Remittance Research -- References -- Chapter 2: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Remittances: New Perspectives on "Guest Worker" Research in Austria -- Introduction -- When Austria Discovered Immigration -- Remittances in Social Science Research of the 1970s -- Reclaiming Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives -- Colonialism Without Colonies -- Austria as a Migration Society -- The Perpetuation of Racism in Migration Discourse -- National Histories and Transnational Society -- Who Tells the National History? Whose Voice Is Heard? -- Provincializing Europe -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: "You Can't Have Your Pudding and Eat It"? Remittances and Development in Yugoslavia, 1918-1989 -- Introduction -- Main Trends in Yugoslav Emigration -- Repatriation Agenda -- Influx of Remittances -- Remittances on the Macro-Scale -- Remittances on the Meso-Scale -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: "Money Can't Buy Me Love": Remittances, Return Migration, and Family Relations in Serbia (1960s-2000s) -- Introduction -- The Inflow of Migrant Remittances in (Post-)Socialist Serbia: An Overview -- Social Status and the Rural/Urban Divide -- The (In)Visibility of Remittances in Family Relationships. The Transformation of Value Systems and the Impact of Class on Family Ties -- Motherhood and Gender Roles -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: "Dear Brother, Please, Send Me Some More Dollars…": Transatlantic Migration and Historic Remittance Between the Habsburg Empire and the United States of America (1890-1930s) -- Historic Remittance Practices -- Migration Between the Habsburg Empire and the United States of America -- Historic Return Migration -- Transatlantic Communications and Sending Money Back Home -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Standing Waves: Remittances as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities -- Introduction: Diasporic Communities and Remittances -- Theoretical Framework: Neo-Diaspora as a "Community of Standing Waves" -- Methods and Context: A Multi-sited Approach and Historical Lens to Study Standing Waves Among Kfarsghabis -- Standing Waves over Time: "We Continue to Enjoy a Bond that is as Strong Today as When our Families Lived through Great Migration Adventures" (FB_KL, 6 April 2014) -- Remittance Money for Infrastructure: "Kfarsghab Will Become a Model Village" (AN, 1971/3, p. 16) -- Knowledge, Medicine, and Sport: "Education in Lebanon is a Very Critical Tool" (AN, 1988/2, p. 31) -- Humanitarian Aid: "To Help Our Brothers and Sisters Abroad" (FB_KDF, 25 August 2020) -- Material Objects and Symbols: "Just Make a Left into Paramatta Road When You Get to Kfarsghab" (AN, 1996/1, p. 24) -- Information and Collective Narratives: "News and Gossip of the Community at Large" (AN, 1999/1, p. 24) -- Emotions: "Joy Shared is Joy Multiplied. Grief Shared is Grief Divided" (FB administrator, Sydney, 21 August 2015) -- Visitors: "[A] Most Pleasant Holiday and Happy Reunion with their Relatives and Friends" (AN, 1972/2, p. 18) -- Conclusion: Standing Waves as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities -- References. Part II: Migrants as Game Changers: Rethinking Collectivity and Agency of Remittances -- References -- Chapter 7: The Confluence of Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity -- Introduction -- Approaching Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity Analytically -- Lived Religion and Islamic Charity -- Remittance Scripts -- Temporal Perspectives -- Methods, Data, and Context -- Remittances and/or Transnational Islamic Charity? -- Sending Money Home: A Confluence of Motivations? -- Remittance Scripts and Transnational Islamic Charity -- Interrogating the Confluence -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Remittances and the Destination State: A Comparison of Bangladeshi Migrants in Japan and the USA -- Introduction -- Earlier Approaches to the Role of the Destination State in Remittance Research -- Encountering the Destination State -- Methodology and the Two Fields of Research -- The Destination State in Bangladeshi Migration to Japan and the USA -- Japan -- The USA -- Remittance Decay in the Context of the Destination State -- Japan: Temporary Migration without the Family and Remittances -- The USA: Permanent Settlement, Family Unification, and Remittances -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: "We Do Solidarity, Not Charity": The Collective Remittance Practices of Moldovan Migrants -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: The Theoretical and Geographical Terrain -- On Channeling the Good Spirits: Migrants' Personal Migration Experiences as a Motivation for Collective Remitting -- Belonging and Self-Representation -- On Becoming a Person Again: Remittance Practices Shaped by Migrants' Professional Skills -- National Historic Determinants and Core-Periphery Dynamics of the Home Nation -- Overcoming the Soviet Past: Regaining Confidence Through Collective Remittance Practices. Putting Moldova Center-Stage: (Re-)Connecting Moldova with Europe Through Collective Remittance Practices -- "We Don't Do Charity […]. We Do Real Things": Migrants' Understanding of Development Practices in Relation to Mainstream Aid-Giving -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Transformative Effects of Remittances on Health Behavior, Community Resilience, and Gender Dynamics in Burkina Faso -- Introduction -- Migration from Niaogho to Italy -- Research Questions, Methods of Data Collection, and Theoretical Framework -- Research Questions -- Methods of Data Collection -- Theoretical Framework: Remittances and Capital Theory -- Remittances and Health at the Community Level -- Development of Health Infrastructure in Niaogho -- Trust, Health Practices, and Knowledge Transfer in Households With and Without a Connection to the Diaspora -- Transformative Effects of Remittances on Community Resilience -- Positive Effects of Remittances at the Household and Community Level -- Negative Effects of Remittances at the Household and Community Level -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Theorizing Materiality in Remittance Research: Exchange, Embodiment, and Transformative Effects -- References -- Chapter 11: The Afterlife of Migrant Gifts -- Thinking Through Things in Motion -- The Biographies of Migrant Gifts -- Theorizing the Gift as a Medium of Migrant Narratives -- Experiencing the Other Land -- Value Shift: The History of Turkish Labor Migration Through Things -- Introducing the Industrial Exotic -- Adoption of the Gift -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances: Transformations of a Knife Across Borders -- At the Kitchen Table -- Introduction -- Iron Manufacturing in the Stubai Valley: A History of Cross-Border Migration -- The Guest Worker Regime from the Perspectives of Austria and Turkey. Participating Simultaneously Here and There: The Cross-Border Space in the Stubai Valley and Uşak -- Theoretical and Methodological Framework: Following Affordances in Remittance Landscapes -- Multi-Sited Ethnography as a Spatial and Temporal Research Strategy -- Stubai Knives and Tools as Remitted Objects -- Knives and Tools in the Everyday Life of Returnees -- Between Connection and Disruption: Remitted Knives as Ambivalent Cross-Border "Tie-Signs" -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances -- References -- Chapter 13: Remittances and Migrating Spaces in the Context of Turkish, Vietnamese, and Korean Remigration -- The Spatiality of Remittances -- References -- Chapter 14: Material Remittances in the Context of Seasonal Work: Social and Economic Change in Vanuatu -- Introduction -- Australia's and New Zealand's Seasonal Worker Schemes -- Material and Financial Remittances in the Context of the RSE and the SWP -- Introducing the Research Field: Vanuatu -- Methodology -- Remitting Material Goods -- Transforming the Village: Homes, Households, Everyday Life, and Schools -- From Thatched to Permanent Homes: The Transformation of the Built Environment -- Within the Household -- Everyday Life and Solar Power -- Schools -- Collective Community Projects -- Host Country Community Contributions -- Kastom Ceremonies -- Transformations in the Business Sector, Agriculture, and Transportation -- Rejection of Remittances, Perceived Negative Impacts, and Inequality -- Material Remittances as Practices of Belonging -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Remittances in the Light of Conflict, Climate Change, and the Postcolonial: Contemporary Issues and Upcoming Challenges -- References -- Chapter 15: Remittances as a Game Changer for Climate Change Adaptation Financing for the Most Vulnerable: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ghana -- Introduction. 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Meyer, Silke. Remittances As Social Practices and Agents of Change : The Future of Transnational Society. Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Theorizing Remittances - Social Positioning and the Making of Migrant Subjectivity -- Transnationalism: A Society in the Making -- What Are Remittances? -- From Ways of Being and Belonging to Becoming: Remittance Scripts and Migrant Subjectivity -- Ways of Being and Belonging: Remittance Scripts and Social Positioning -- Becoming: Remittances and the Production of Migrant Subjectivity -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Historical Perspectives in Remittance Research -- References -- Chapter 2: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Remittances: New Perspectives on "Guest Worker" Research in Austria -- Introduction -- When Austria Discovered Immigration -- Remittances in Social Science Research of the 1970s -- Reclaiming Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives -- Colonialism Without Colonies -- Austria as a Migration Society -- The Perpetuation of Racism in Migration Discourse -- National Histories and Transnational Society -- Who Tells the National History? Whose Voice Is Heard? -- Provincializing Europe -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: "You Can't Have Your Pudding and Eat It"? Remittances and Development in Yugoslavia, 1918-1989 -- Introduction -- Main Trends in Yugoslav Emigration -- Repatriation Agenda -- Influx of Remittances -- Remittances on the Macro-Scale -- Remittances on the Meso-Scale -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: "Money Can't Buy Me Love": Remittances, Return Migration, and Family Relations in Serbia (1960s-2000s) -- Introduction -- The Inflow of Migrant Remittances in (Post-)Socialist Serbia: An Overview -- Social Status and the Rural/Urban Divide -- The (In)Visibility of Remittances in Family Relationships. The Transformation of Value Systems and the Impact of Class on Family Ties -- Motherhood and Gender Roles -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: "Dear Brother, Please, Send Me Some More Dollars…": Transatlantic Migration and Historic Remittance Between the Habsburg Empire and the United States of America (1890-1930s) -- Historic Remittance Practices -- Migration Between the Habsburg Empire and the United States of America -- Historic Return Migration -- Transatlantic Communications and Sending Money Back Home -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Standing Waves: Remittances as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities -- Introduction: Diasporic Communities and Remittances -- Theoretical Framework: Neo-Diaspora as a "Community of Standing Waves" -- Methods and Context: A Multi-sited Approach and Historical Lens to Study Standing Waves Among Kfarsghabis -- Standing Waves over Time: "We Continue to Enjoy a Bond that is as Strong Today as When our Families Lived through Great Migration Adventures" (FB_KL, 6 April 2014) -- Remittance Money for Infrastructure: "Kfarsghab Will Become a Model Village" (AN, 1971/3, p. 16) -- Knowledge, Medicine, and Sport: "Education in Lebanon is a Very Critical Tool" (AN, 1988/2, p. 31) -- Humanitarian Aid: "To Help Our Brothers and Sisters Abroad" (FB_KDF, 25 August 2020) -- Material Objects and Symbols: "Just Make a Left into Paramatta Road When You Get to Kfarsghab" (AN, 1996/1, p. 24) -- Information and Collective Narratives: "News and Gossip of the Community at Large" (AN, 1999/1, p. 24) -- Emotions: "Joy Shared is Joy Multiplied. Grief Shared is Grief Divided" (FB administrator, Sydney, 21 August 2015) -- Visitors: "[A] Most Pleasant Holiday and Happy Reunion with their Relatives and Friends" (AN, 1972/2, p. 18) -- Conclusion: Standing Waves as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities -- References. Part II: Migrants as Game Changers: Rethinking Collectivity and Agency of Remittances -- References -- Chapter 7: The Confluence of Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity -- Introduction -- Approaching Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity Analytically -- Lived Religion and Islamic Charity -- Remittance Scripts -- Temporal Perspectives -- Methods, Data, and Context -- Remittances and/or Transnational Islamic Charity? -- Sending Money Home: A Confluence of Motivations? -- Remittance Scripts and Transnational Islamic Charity -- Interrogating the Confluence -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Remittances and the Destination State: A Comparison of Bangladeshi Migrants in Japan and the USA -- Introduction -- Earlier Approaches to the Role of the Destination State in Remittance Research -- Encountering the Destination State -- Methodology and the Two Fields of Research -- The Destination State in Bangladeshi Migration to Japan and the USA -- Japan -- The USA -- Remittance Decay in the Context of the Destination State -- Japan: Temporary Migration without the Family and Remittances -- The USA: Permanent Settlement, Family Unification, and Remittances -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: "We Do Solidarity, Not Charity": The Collective Remittance Practices of Moldovan Migrants -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: The Theoretical and Geographical Terrain -- On Channeling the Good Spirits: Migrants' Personal Migration Experiences as a Motivation for Collective Remitting -- Belonging and Self-Representation -- On Becoming a Person Again: Remittance Practices Shaped by Migrants' Professional Skills -- National Historic Determinants and Core-Periphery Dynamics of the Home Nation -- Overcoming the Soviet Past: Regaining Confidence Through Collective Remittance Practices. Putting Moldova Center-Stage: (Re-)Connecting Moldova with Europe Through Collective Remittance Practices -- "We Don't Do Charity […]. We Do Real Things": Migrants' Understanding of Development Practices in Relation to Mainstream Aid-Giving -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Transformative Effects of Remittances on Health Behavior, Community Resilience, and Gender Dynamics in Burkina Faso -- Introduction -- Migration from Niaogho to Italy -- Research Questions, Methods of Data Collection, and Theoretical Framework -- Research Questions -- Methods of Data Collection -- Theoretical Framework: Remittances and Capital Theory -- Remittances and Health at the Community Level -- Development of Health Infrastructure in Niaogho -- Trust, Health Practices, and Knowledge Transfer in Households With and Without a Connection to the Diaspora -- Transformative Effects of Remittances on Community Resilience -- Positive Effects of Remittances at the Household and Community Level -- Negative Effects of Remittances at the Household and Community Level -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Theorizing Materiality in Remittance Research: Exchange, Embodiment, and Transformative Effects -- References -- Chapter 11: The Afterlife of Migrant Gifts -- Thinking Through Things in Motion -- The Biographies of Migrant Gifts -- Theorizing the Gift as a Medium of Migrant Narratives -- Experiencing the Other Land -- Value Shift: The History of Turkish Labor Migration Through Things -- Introducing the Industrial Exotic -- Adoption of the Gift -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances: Transformations of a Knife Across Borders -- At the Kitchen Table -- Introduction -- Iron Manufacturing in the Stubai Valley: A History of Cross-Border Migration -- The Guest Worker Regime from the Perspectives of Austria and Turkey. Participating Simultaneously Here and There: The Cross-Border Space in the Stubai Valley and Uşak -- Theoretical and Methodological Framework: Following Affordances in Remittance Landscapes -- Multi-Sited Ethnography as a Spatial and Temporal Research Strategy -- Stubai Knives and Tools as Remitted Objects -- Knives and Tools in the Everyday Life of Returnees -- Between Connection and Disruption: Remitted Knives as Ambivalent Cross-Border "Tie-Signs" -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances -- References -- Chapter 13: Remittances and Migrating Spaces in the Context of Turkish, Vietnamese, and Korean Remigration -- The Spatiality of Remittances -- References -- Chapter 14: Material Remittances in the Context of Seasonal Work: Social and Economic Change in Vanuatu -- Introduction -- Australia's and New Zealand's Seasonal Worker Schemes -- Material and Financial Remittances in the Context of the RSE and the SWP -- Introducing the Research Field: Vanuatu -- Methodology -- Remitting Material Goods -- Transforming the Village: Homes, Households, Everyday Life, and Schools -- From Thatched to Permanent Homes: The Transformation of the Built Environment -- Within the Household -- Everyday Life and Solar Power -- Schools -- Collective Community Projects -- Host Country Community Contributions -- Kastom Ceremonies -- Transformations in the Business Sector, Agriculture, and Transportation -- Rejection of Remittances, Perceived Negative Impacts, and Inequality -- Material Remittances as Practices of Belonging -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Remittances in the Light of Conflict, Climate Change, and the Postcolonial: Contemporary Issues and Upcoming Challenges -- References -- Chapter 15: Remittances as a Game Changer for Climate Change Adaptation Financing for the Most Vulnerable: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ghana -- Introduction. 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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Theorizing Remittances - Social Positioning and the Making of Migrant Subjectivity -- Transnationalism: A Society in the Making -- What Are Remittances? -- From Ways of Being and Belonging to Becoming: Remittance Scripts and Migrant Subjectivity -- Ways of Being and Belonging: Remittance Scripts and Social Positioning -- Becoming: Remittances and the Production of Migrant Subjectivity -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Historical Perspectives in Remittance Research -- References -- Chapter 2: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Remittances: New Perspectives on "Guest Worker" Research in Austria -- Introduction -- When Austria Discovered Immigration -- Remittances in Social Science Research of the 1970s -- Reclaiming Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives -- Colonialism Without Colonies -- Austria as a Migration Society -- The Perpetuation of Racism in Migration Discourse -- National Histories and Transnational Society -- Who Tells the National History? Whose Voice Is Heard? -- Provincializing Europe -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: "You Can't Have Your Pudding and Eat It"? Remittances and Development in Yugoslavia, 1918-1989 -- Introduction -- Main Trends in Yugoslav Emigration -- Repatriation Agenda -- Influx of Remittances -- Remittances on the Macro-Scale -- Remittances on the Meso-Scale -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: "Money Can't Buy Me Love": Remittances, Return Migration, and Family Relations in Serbia (1960s-2000s) -- Introduction -- The Inflow of Migrant Remittances in (Post-)Socialist Serbia: An Overview -- Social Status and the Rural/Urban Divide -- The (In)Visibility of Remittances in Family Relationships. The Transformation of Value Systems and the Impact of Class on Family Ties -- Motherhood and Gender Roles -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: "Dear Brother, Please, Send Me Some More Dollars…": Transatlantic Migration and Historic Remittance Between the Habsburg Empire and the United States of America (1890-1930s) -- Historic Remittance Practices -- Migration Between the Habsburg Empire and the United States of America -- Historic Return Migration -- Transatlantic Communications and Sending Money Back Home -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Standing Waves: Remittances as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities -- Introduction: Diasporic Communities and Remittances -- Theoretical Framework: Neo-Diaspora as a "Community of Standing Waves" -- Methods and Context: A Multi-sited Approach and Historical Lens to Study Standing Waves Among Kfarsghabis -- Standing Waves over Time: "We Continue to Enjoy a Bond that is as Strong Today as When our Families Lived through Great Migration Adventures" (FB_KL, 6 April 2014) -- Remittance Money for Infrastructure: "Kfarsghab Will Become a Model Village" (AN, 1971/3, p. 16) -- Knowledge, Medicine, and Sport: "Education in Lebanon is a Very Critical Tool" (AN, 1988/2, p. 31) -- Humanitarian Aid: "To Help Our Brothers and Sisters Abroad" (FB_KDF, 25 August 2020) -- Material Objects and Symbols: "Just Make a Left into Paramatta Road When You Get to Kfarsghab" (AN, 1996/1, p. 24) -- Information and Collective Narratives: "News and Gossip of the Community at Large" (AN, 1999/1, p. 24) -- Emotions: "Joy Shared is Joy Multiplied. Grief Shared is Grief Divided" (FB administrator, Sydney, 21 August 2015) -- Visitors: "[A] Most Pleasant Holiday and Happy Reunion with their Relatives and Friends" (AN, 1972/2, p. 18) -- Conclusion: Standing Waves as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities -- References. Part II: Migrants as Game Changers: Rethinking Collectivity and Agency of Remittances -- References -- Chapter 7: The Confluence of Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity -- Introduction -- Approaching Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity Analytically -- Lived Religion and Islamic Charity -- Remittance Scripts -- Temporal Perspectives -- Methods, Data, and Context -- Remittances and/or Transnational Islamic Charity? -- Sending Money Home: A Confluence of Motivations? -- Remittance Scripts and Transnational Islamic Charity -- Interrogating the Confluence -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Remittances and the Destination State: A Comparison of Bangladeshi Migrants in Japan and the USA -- Introduction -- Earlier Approaches to the Role of the Destination State in Remittance Research -- Encountering the Destination State -- Methodology and the Two Fields of Research -- The Destination State in Bangladeshi Migration to Japan and the USA -- Japan -- The USA -- Remittance Decay in the Context of the Destination State -- Japan: Temporary Migration without the Family and Remittances -- The USA: Permanent Settlement, Family Unification, and Remittances -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: "We Do Solidarity, Not Charity": The Collective Remittance Practices of Moldovan Migrants -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: The Theoretical and Geographical Terrain -- On Channeling the Good Spirits: Migrants' Personal Migration Experiences as a Motivation for Collective Remitting -- Belonging and Self-Representation -- On Becoming a Person Again: Remittance Practices Shaped by Migrants' Professional Skills -- National Historic Determinants and Core-Periphery Dynamics of the Home Nation -- Overcoming the Soviet Past: Regaining Confidence Through Collective Remittance Practices. Putting Moldova Center-Stage: (Re-)Connecting Moldova with Europe Through Collective Remittance Practices -- "We Don't Do Charity […]. We Do Real Things": Migrants' Understanding of Development Practices in Relation to Mainstream Aid-Giving -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Transformative Effects of Remittances on Health Behavior, Community Resilience, and Gender Dynamics in Burkina Faso -- Introduction -- Migration from Niaogho to Italy -- Research Questions, Methods of Data Collection, and Theoretical Framework -- Research Questions -- Methods of Data Collection -- Theoretical Framework: Remittances and Capital Theory -- Remittances and Health at the Community Level -- Development of Health Infrastructure in Niaogho -- Trust, Health Practices, and Knowledge Transfer in Households With and Without a Connection to the Diaspora -- Transformative Effects of Remittances on Community Resilience -- Positive Effects of Remittances at the Household and Community Level -- Negative Effects of Remittances at the Household and Community Level -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Theorizing Materiality in Remittance Research: Exchange, Embodiment, and Transformative Effects -- References -- Chapter 11: The Afterlife of Migrant Gifts -- Thinking Through Things in Motion -- The Biographies of Migrant Gifts -- Theorizing the Gift as a Medium of Migrant Narratives -- Experiencing the Other Land -- Value Shift: The History of Turkish Labor Migration Through Things -- Introducing the Industrial Exotic -- Adoption of the Gift -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances: Transformations of a Knife Across Borders -- At the Kitchen Table -- Introduction -- Iron Manufacturing in the Stubai Valley: A History of Cross-Border Migration -- The Guest Worker Regime from the Perspectives of Austria and Turkey. Participating Simultaneously Here and There: The Cross-Border Space in the Stubai Valley and Uşak -- Theoretical and Methodological Framework: Following Affordances in Remittance Landscapes -- Multi-Sited Ethnography as a Spatial and Temporal Research Strategy -- Stubai Knives and Tools as Remitted Objects -- Knives and Tools in the Everyday Life of Returnees -- Between Connection and Disruption: Remitted Knives as Ambivalent Cross-Border "Tie-Signs" -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances -- References -- Chapter 13: Remittances and Migrating Spaces in the Context of Turkish, Vietnamese, and Korean Remigration -- The Spatiality of Remittances -- References -- Chapter 14: Material Remittances in the Context of Seasonal Work: Social and Economic Change in Vanuatu -- Introduction -- Australia's and New Zealand's Seasonal Worker Schemes -- Material and Financial Remittances in the Context of the RSE and the SWP -- Introducing the Research Field: Vanuatu -- Methodology -- Remitting Material Goods -- Transforming the Village: Homes, Households, Everyday Life, and Schools -- From Thatched to Permanent Homes: The Transformation of the Built Environment -- Within the Household -- Everyday Life and Solar Power -- Schools -- Collective Community Projects -- Host Country Community Contributions -- Kastom Ceremonies -- Transformations in the Business Sector, Agriculture, and Transportation -- Rejection of Remittances, Perceived Negative Impacts, and Inequality -- Material Remittances as Practices of Belonging -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Remittances in the Light of Conflict, Climate Change, and the Postcolonial: Contemporary Issues and Upcoming Challenges -- References -- Chapter 15: Remittances as a Game Changer for Climate Change Adaptation Financing for the Most Vulnerable: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ghana -- Introduction. 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Whose Voice Is Heard? -- Provincializing Europe -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: "You Can't Have Your Pudding and Eat It"? Remittances and Development in Yugoslavia, 1918-1989 -- Introduction -- Main Trends in Yugoslav Emigration -- Repatriation Agenda -- Influx of Remittances -- Remittances on the Macro-Scale -- Remittances on the Meso-Scale -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: "Money Can't Buy Me Love": Remittances, Return Migration, and Family Relations in Serbia (1960s-2000s) -- Introduction -- The Inflow of Migrant Remittances in (Post-)Socialist Serbia: An Overview -- Social Status and the Rural/Urban Divide -- The (In)Visibility of Remittances in Family Relationships.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">The Transformation of Value Systems and the Impact of Class on Family Ties -- Motherhood and Gender Roles -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: "Dear Brother, Please, Send Me Some More Dollars…": Transatlantic Migration and Historic Remittance Between the Habsburg Empire and the United States of America (1890-1930s) -- Historic Remittance Practices -- Migration Between the Habsburg Empire and the United States of America -- Historic Return Migration -- Transatlantic Communications and Sending Money Back Home -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Standing Waves: Remittances as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities -- Introduction: Diasporic Communities and Remittances -- Theoretical Framework: Neo-Diaspora as a "Community of Standing Waves" -- Methods and Context: A Multi-sited Approach and Historical Lens to Study Standing Waves Among Kfarsghabis -- Standing Waves over Time: "We Continue to Enjoy a Bond that is as Strong Today as When our Families Lived through Great Migration Adventures" (FB_KL, 6 April 2014) -- Remittance Money for Infrastructure: "Kfarsghab Will Become a Model Village" (AN, 1971/3, p. 16) -- Knowledge, Medicine, and Sport: "Education in Lebanon is a Very Critical Tool" (AN, 1988/2, p. 31) -- Humanitarian Aid: "To Help Our Brothers and Sisters Abroad" (FB_KDF, 25 August 2020) -- Material Objects and Symbols: "Just Make a Left into Paramatta Road When You Get to Kfarsghab" (AN, 1996/1, p. 24) -- Information and Collective Narratives: "News and Gossip of the Community at Large" (AN, 1999/1, p. 24) -- Emotions: "Joy Shared is Joy Multiplied. Grief Shared is Grief Divided" (FB administrator, Sydney, 21 August 2015) -- Visitors: "[A] Most Pleasant Holiday and Happy Reunion with their Relatives and Friends" (AN, 1972/2, p. 18) -- Conclusion: Standing Waves as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities -- References.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Part II: Migrants as Game Changers: Rethinking Collectivity and Agency of Remittances -- References -- Chapter 7: The Confluence of Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity -- Introduction -- Approaching Remittances and Transnational Islamic Charity Analytically -- Lived Religion and Islamic Charity -- Remittance Scripts -- Temporal Perspectives -- Methods, Data, and Context -- Remittances and/or Transnational Islamic Charity? -- Sending Money Home: A Confluence of Motivations? -- Remittance Scripts and Transnational Islamic Charity -- Interrogating the Confluence -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Remittances and the Destination State: A Comparison of Bangladeshi Migrants in Japan and the USA -- Introduction -- Earlier Approaches to the Role of the Destination State in Remittance Research -- Encountering the Destination State -- Methodology and the Two Fields of Research -- The Destination State in Bangladeshi Migration to Japan and the USA -- Japan -- The USA -- Remittance Decay in the Context of the Destination State -- Japan: Temporary Migration without the Family and Remittances -- The USA: Permanent Settlement, Family Unification, and Remittances -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: "We Do Solidarity, Not Charity": The Collective Remittance Practices of Moldovan Migrants -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: The Theoretical and Geographical Terrain -- On Channeling the Good Spirits: Migrants' Personal Migration Experiences as a Motivation for Collective Remitting -- Belonging and Self-Representation -- On Becoming a Person Again: Remittance Practices Shaped by Migrants' Professional Skills -- National Historic Determinants and Core-Periphery Dynamics of the Home Nation -- Overcoming the Soviet Past: Regaining Confidence Through Collective Remittance Practices.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Putting Moldova Center-Stage: (Re-)Connecting Moldova with Europe Through Collective Remittance Practices -- "We Don't Do Charity […]. We Do Real Things": Migrants' Understanding of Development Practices in Relation to Mainstream Aid-Giving -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Transformative Effects of Remittances on Health Behavior, Community Resilience, and Gender Dynamics in Burkina Faso -- Introduction -- Migration from Niaogho to Italy -- Research Questions, Methods of Data Collection, and Theoretical Framework -- Research Questions -- Methods of Data Collection -- Theoretical Framework: Remittances and Capital Theory -- Remittances and Health at the Community Level -- Development of Health Infrastructure in Niaogho -- Trust, Health Practices, and Knowledge Transfer in Households With and Without a Connection to the Diaspora -- Transformative Effects of Remittances on Community Resilience -- Positive Effects of Remittances at the Household and Community Level -- Negative Effects of Remittances at the Household and Community Level -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Theorizing Materiality in Remittance Research: Exchange, Embodiment, and Transformative Effects -- References -- Chapter 11: The Afterlife of Migrant Gifts -- Thinking Through Things in Motion -- The Biographies of Migrant Gifts -- Theorizing the Gift as a Medium of Migrant Narratives -- Experiencing the Other Land -- Value Shift: The History of Turkish Labor Migration Through Things -- Introducing the Industrial Exotic -- Adoption of the Gift -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances: Transformations of a Knife Across Borders -- At the Kitchen Table -- Introduction -- Iron Manufacturing in the Stubai Valley: A History of Cross-Border Migration -- The Guest Worker Regime from the Perspectives of Austria and Turkey.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Participating Simultaneously Here and There: The Cross-Border Space in the Stubai Valley and Uşak -- Theoretical and Methodological Framework: Following Affordances in Remittance Landscapes -- Multi-Sited Ethnography as a Spatial and Temporal Research Strategy -- Stubai Knives and Tools as Remitted Objects -- Knives and Tools in the Everyday Life of Returnees -- Between Connection and Disruption: Remitted Knives as Ambivalent Cross-Border "Tie-Signs" -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances -- References -- Chapter 13: Remittances and Migrating Spaces in the Context of Turkish, Vietnamese, and Korean Remigration -- The Spatiality of Remittances -- References -- Chapter 14: Material Remittances in the Context of Seasonal Work: Social and Economic Change in Vanuatu -- Introduction -- Australia's and New Zealand's Seasonal Worker Schemes -- Material and Financial Remittances in the Context of the RSE and the SWP -- Introducing the Research Field: Vanuatu -- Methodology -- Remitting Material Goods -- Transforming the Village: Homes, Households, Everyday Life, and Schools -- From Thatched to Permanent Homes: The Transformation of the Built Environment -- Within the Household -- Everyday Life and Solar Power -- Schools -- Collective Community Projects -- Host Country Community Contributions -- Kastom Ceremonies -- Transformations in the Business Sector, Agriculture, and Transportation -- Rejection of Remittances, Perceived Negative Impacts, and Inequality -- Material Remittances as Practices of Belonging -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Remittances in the Light of Conflict, Climate Change, and the Postcolonial: Contemporary Issues and Upcoming Challenges -- References -- Chapter 15: Remittances as a Game Changer for Climate Change Adaptation Financing for the Most Vulnerable: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ghana -- Introduction.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Materials and Methods.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="590" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Electronic reproduction. 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