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Remittances have primarily been studied as money flows resulting from migration and the impact this has had on the economy at the family, local, regional and national levels. The paper suggests it is also useful to study remittances as transnational family money. This focus emphasizes the emotional meaning of money as a medium of filial devotion. It also brings to the fore the relationship between different nodes of the diaspora, increasing the importance of the anthropological study of money within diasporas. 1. The personal experience of money, family and diaspora Let me start with a personal note about diasporas and remittances. My family is distribute