Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia [Paperback]

The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend to become a primary currency of care, the making or breaking of the family unit is mainly contingent on how individuals handle remittance processes.1. Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family; Lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S.A. Yeoh PART I: REMITTANCES AS GENDERED PROCESSES 2. Transnational Remittances And Gendered Status Enhancement In Rural Bangladesh; Nitya Rao 3. Remittances And Women's Agency: Managing Networks Of Obligation Among Burmese Migrant Workers In Thailand; Kyoko Kusakabe And Ruth Pearson 4. 'Good' Sons And 'Dutiful' Daughters: A Structural Symbolic Interactionist Analysis Of The Migration And Remittance Behaviour Of Northern Thai International Migrants; Teresa Sobieszczyk 5. They Remember Me When I'm Gone': Remittances, Fatherhood And Gender Relations Of Filipino Migrant Men; Steven McKay PART II: REMITTANCES AND GENERATIONAL DYNAMICS OF CHANGE 6. Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing, And Intergenerational Family Obligations In Sri Lanka; Michele Ruth Gamburd 7. Differential Impacts Of Migration On The Family Networks Of Older People In Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis; Philip Kreager And Elisabeth Schr?der-Butterfill 8. Migration, Remittances, And Social And Spatial Organization Of Rural Households In China; Cindy C. Fan 9. Filipino Children And The Affective Economy Of Saving And Being Saved: Remittances And Debts In Transnational Migrant Families; Cheryll Alipio PART III: (NON)REMITTANCES AND THE FAMILY IN CRISIS 10. Rethinking Remittances through Emotion: Filipina Migrant Labourers in Singapore and Transnational Families Undone; Sallie Yea 11. Transnational Labour Migration, Debts, And Family Economics In Vietnam; Lan Anh Hoang And Brenda S.A. YeohThis volume, edited by Hoang and Yeoh, is a valuable addition to qualitative research on impacl/