Return to Sender : The Moral Economy of Peru's Migrant Remittances / Karsten Paerregaard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paerregaard, Karsten, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peruvians--Foreign countries.

Peruvians.

Emigrant remittances--Peru.

Emigrant remittances.

Peru--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Peru.

Peru--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities. The book draws on first-hand ethnographic data from North and South America, Europe, and Japan to describe how Peruvians remit to relatives at home, collectively raise money to organize development projects in their regions of origin, and invest savings in business and other activities.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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Social Life of Remittances

Chapter 2. Peru: Migration and Remittances

Chapter 3. Compromiso: The Family Commitment

Chapter 4. Voluntad: The Community Commitment

Chapter 5. Superación: The Personal Commitment

Chapter 6. After Remittances

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520284746

0520284747

9780520960459

0520960459

OCLC:

898475072