Sending remittances is one of the strongest bonds tying together families dispersed by migration. For migrants supporting the family left behind is a moral duty, the sign their social affiliation and the gauge of their belonging to a network of kinship and exchange. As time goes by, though, some of them perceive the demands of their original families as excessive. They have thus developed different strategies to come to terms with problem of control over the use of remittances. Building on a fieldwork I conducted in Dakar, in this article I consider an original case of reorganization of remittances sending, put in place through the establishment of a website offering migrants the opportunity to purchase at a distance provisions they want de...
Remittances, that is, money migrants send home, are more than double the official aid received by de...
Over the past couple of decades, remittances—loosely defined as the money migrants earn working abro...
This research examines the surplus that Senegalese migrants realize in the country of arrival (Belgi...
International audienceThis paper focuses on a website which allows Senegalese migrants to purchase a...
International audienceOften studied in terms of remittances from international migration, intra-fami...
Les transferts d’argent des émigrés attirent l’intérêt des organismes internationaux qui les considè...
This thesis studies migrants' remittances and aims first at understanding the reasons why migrants s...
The economic literature provides much evidence of the positive impact of social capital on migrants'...
The transfer of money from migrants to their non-migrant relatives is a key, symbol of the quality a...
African Economic Research Consortium: Plenary Session December 2004 and May 2005This paper reviews s...
The theoretical debate on migration and family is ambivalent. Migration can be seen from an “individ...
L'objectif de ce travail doctoral sera de préciser le rôle des associations de migrants dans la circ...
Abstract: This paper reviews some of the evidence on the role of migration and remittances in Africa...
Remittances, that is, money migrants send home, are more than double the official aid received by de...
Over the past couple of decades, remittances—loosely defined as the money migrants earn working abro...
This research examines the surplus that Senegalese migrants realize in the country of arrival (Belgi...
International audienceThis paper focuses on a website which allows Senegalese migrants to purchase a...
International audienceOften studied in terms of remittances from international migration, intra-fami...
Les transferts d’argent des émigrés attirent l’intérêt des organismes internationaux qui les considè...
This thesis studies migrants' remittances and aims first at understanding the reasons why migrants s...
The economic literature provides much evidence of the positive impact of social capital on migrants'...
The transfer of money from migrants to their non-migrant relatives is a key, symbol of the quality a...
African Economic Research Consortium: Plenary Session December 2004 and May 2005This paper reviews s...
The theoretical debate on migration and family is ambivalent. Migration can be seen from an “individ...
L'objectif de ce travail doctoral sera de préciser le rôle des associations de migrants dans la circ...
Abstract: This paper reviews some of the evidence on the role of migration and remittances in Africa...
Remittances, that is, money migrants send home, are more than double the official aid received by de...
Over the past couple of decades, remittances—loosely defined as the money migrants earn working abro...
This research examines the surplus that Senegalese migrants realize in the country of arrival (Belgi...