Full Description
This book endeavours to take the conceptualisation of the relationship between transnational remittance exchanges and gender to a new level. Thus, inevitably, it provides a number of case studies of relationships between gender and remittances from around the world, highlighting different processes and practises. Thereby the authors seek to understand the impact of remittances on gender and gender relations, both at the sending as well as at the receiving end. For each case study authors ask how remittances affect gender identities and relationships but also vice versa. By itself this already adds a wealth of insights to a field that is remarkably understudied despite a volume of studies on gender and the feminization of migration in developing contexts. Chapters take an open, explorative approach to the relationship between gender and remittance behaviour with the aid of case studies focusing on transnational flows between migrants and countries of origin. With the wide variety of cases this book is able to provide conceptual insights to better understand how remittances affect gender identity, roles and relations (at both the receiving and sending end) and give specific attention to the roles of various actors directly and indirectly involved in remittance sending in current collectively organized remittance schemes from around the world.
Contents
Preamble; Preface; Prologue: Women, gender and remittances: an introduction, Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Tine Davids and Marianne H. Marchand. Part I Setting the Context: A gender perspective on migration, remittances and development: the UN-INSTRAW experience, Elisabeth Robert; Exploring gender and remittances, Ton van Naerssen. Part II Transnational Microcosms: Engendering Remittances in Daily Practices: Contesting gender roles: 'left-behind' migrant spouses in Kumasi, Ghana, Ingmar Deenen, Lieke van der Zee and Lothar Smith; Transnational households and the dynamics of changing gender relations in Sucre, Bolivia, Roos Helmich; Gender dimensions of the 'national script' on migration and remittances in the Philippines, Phillip Gresham, Marieke Smit and Lothar Smith; Gender and remittances in the constitution of a transnational religious space: the Bangladesh-Malaysia connection, Petra Dannecker. Part III Policy Scapes to the Gender-Remittances Nexus: 'All in the family': remittances, gender and public policies in the Philippines, Maruja M.B. Asis; Migrants' and women's rights are human rights: migrant remittances and policies in Bangladesh, Agnes Khoo; Valuing gender in collective development efforts, Danielle de Winter; Migrants as 'experts' or 'agents' of development? A postcolonial feminist critique, Marianne H. Marchand. Part IV Reflecting on the Nexus and Performative Power: 'Moneymaker and mother from afar': the power of gender myths, Rahel Kunz; Framing gender in remittances, Tine Davids and Francien van Driel; Epilogue: reflecting on the women-gender-remittances-development nexus, Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Tine Davids and Marianne H. Marchand. Index.
