Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe [Hardcover]

This book explores migrant's global social remittances and their impacts on Europe. Exploring the topic from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, geography and political science, the authors present empirical analyses covering a wide selection of international contexts across Europe, India, Iraq, Bolivia, Congo, Lebanon and Thailand. The book presents migrants not as Europes cultural others but as an integral part of Europes global connection, and scrutinises the flows of knowledge, ideas, money, objects and values which result from the process of migration, rather than the migrants themselves.

A valuable contribution to the literature on migrant transnationalism and globalisation, this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences. 

0. An Introduction to the Debate:  Migration and Remittances in a Global Europe; Magdalena Nowicka and Vojin `erbed~ija.- Part 1: Circulating Social Remittances within Europe.- 1. Reflexive Mediterranisation: Mobilities, Economies, and the Cultural Remittance of Imaginaries; Regina R?mhild.- 2. An Inside-out Approach to Social Remittances: Linking Migration and Social Change in Poland; Anne White.- 3. Structuring Social Remittances: Transnational Networks of Polish Migrants; Aukasz Krzy|owski.- Part 2: Social Remittances and Political Engagement.- 4. The Emergence of a Diasporic Political Field: A case for Political Remittances; Paul Tabar and Wahib Maalouf.- 5. A Conceptual and Empirical Critique of Social Remittances: Iraqi Kurdish Migrants Narrate Resistance; Erlend Paasche.- 6. Dersim across Borders: Political Transmittances between the Kurdish-Turkish Province Tunceli and Europe; Sabine Strasser and Mustafa Ak?1nar.- Part 3: Family Commitments, Gender Roles and Remitting.- 7. Circulating Remittances: Cross-Border Negotiation of Family Values among Thai Migrant Women and Their Dutch Husbands; Panitee Suksol³)