Overview: Presents a wide geopolitical range of contributions, covering six continents.Scrutinizes remittances as neocolonial structures and their effect of reproducing global inequalities.Challenges the transf.This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people live, work, and communicate with multiple belongings. By doing so, they effect social change both in places of origin and destination. However, their power to improve
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