Return to sender : the moral economy of Peru's migrant remittances / Karsten Paerregaard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paerregaard, Karsten, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigrant remittances--Peru.

Emigrant remittances.

Peruvians--Foreign countries.

Peruvians.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Foreign countries.

Peru--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Peru.

Peru--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

xvi, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, [2014]

Summary:

Return to Sender: The Moral Economy of Peru's Migrant Remittances is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that means for themselves and for their home communities. The book draws on first-hand ethnographic data from North and South America, Europe, and Japan. It tells how Peruvians remit to relatives at home, collectively raise money for development projects in their regions of origin, and invest in businesses and other activities. The author, Karsten Paerregaard, challenges unqualified approval of remittances as beneficial resources of development for home communities and important income for home countries. He finds a more complex situation in which remittances can also create dependency and deprivation. Book jacket.

Contents:

The social life of remittances

Peru : migration and remittances

Compromiso : the family commitment

Voluntad : the community commitment

Superación : the personal commitment

After remittances.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520284746

0520284747

0520284739

9780520284739

OCLC:

890068096