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Migrant remittances and household development: an anthropological analysis
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-18, 05:16 authored by Eversole, R, Johnson, MOver the past decade, influxes of remittances from overseas workers, mostly sent to families back home, have begun to attract policy and scholarly attention for their potential development impacts. This article seeks to answer the question: What is the development impact of these remittances for the households that receive them with reference to field data from remittancereceiving households in the Philippines. Recognising that different ‘development logics’ inform different understandings of development, this article analyses field data on migrant remittances with reference to three common sets of development logics: economic development, social development and sustainable livelihoods. It then dialogues and extends these findings with qualitative data on the way remittance-receiving households themselves understand the role of migrant remittances. An anthropological approach brings these different logics into dialogue, illustrating the complexity of households’ quest for economic, social and livelihood outcomes, and the need to understand the contexts that influence their ability to meet their development goals at home and abroad.
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Publication title
Development studies researchPagination
1-15ISSN
2166-5095Department/School
DVC - AcademicPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
United KingdomRights statement
Copyright 2014 The Authors-This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.Repository Status
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