Sacred remittances: money, migration and the moral economy of development in a transnational African church

Garbin, David

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2018.1433528

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“…Usually involving people who know each other (relatives, friends, community members) and are already socially connected before migration, remittances are affected by and shape the very definition and contours of who counts as 'family', which may vary extensively (see for instance Glick Schiller and Fouron 2001;Goldring 2004;Smith 2006;McKay 2007;Lindley 2009;Åkesson 2011;Olwig 2012;Pribilsky 2012;Abranches 2014;Carling 2014;Gardner 2015;Katigbak 2015;Coe 2016;Herrera 2017;Garbin 2019;Zharkevich 2019). They also connect non-kin, such as religious communities (Garbin 2019) or other social formations (cf. Goldring 2004 on 'collective remittances', Lacroix 2016 on hometown organisations as development actors or Smith 2006 on political life in the place of origin), as in cases where money is explicitly designated to support the poor in one's village (cf.…”

Section: Family Obligations and Moral Breakdownsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moral economies are thus reflexive and explicit responses to moments of conflicting co-presence of different economic models and frameworks of expectations xii . A fruitful body of research deploys the notion of 'moral economy' to analyze aspects of migration related to transnational family and/or community expectations and obligations, notably in regard to remittances (see Velayutham and Wise 2005;Isabaeva 2011;Garbin 2019; and the review in Scalettaris et al 2019). While partly overlapping with this scholarship, our approach aims to complement it by advocating a deeper engagement with current theoretical insights in the anthropology of ethics and morality.…”

Section: Family Obligations and Moral Breakdownsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Remittances and morality: family obligations, development, and the ethical demands of migration

Simoni

Voirol

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Remittances have moral dimensions that, albeit implicitly addressed in migration literature, have not yet been the focus of explicit attention and analysis by social scientists. Building on recent developments in the anthropology of ethics and morality, this article proposes theoretical and analytical pathways to address this important but often neglected aspect of remittances. It does so mainly via a critical analysis of existing scholarship on remittances, and ethnographic data drawn from research among Cuban migrants in Cuba and Spain. The reflexive scrutiny of scholars' moral assumptions about remittances opens the way for the study of the moral dilemmas and ethical demands articulated by remittance senders and recipients. Family roles and obligations, and the uses of the money sent by migrants, are identified as key areas of moral difficulty. Their analysis shows how remittances inform moral reassessments of family relations, individual responsibility, economic practice, and development. The notion of 'moral remittances' is proposed as a heuristic comparative tool that serves to illuminate the moral aspects of remittances. This notion is put into perspective to complement and reconsider more metaphorical takes on remittances, notably the concept of 'social remittances', of which it helps reveal some epistemological limitations while opening future research avenues.

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Section: Family Obligations and Moral Breakdownsmentioning

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Remittances and morality: family obligations, development, and the ethical demands of migration

Simoni

Voirol

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Die Live-Übertragung von religiösen Ritualen über den halben Planeten hinweg (Brinkerhoff 2009) ist dabei ebenso gang und gäbe wie Transferzahlungen zwischen den Gemeinden in Herkunfts-und Zielland. Garbin (2019) (Brubaker 2013a). Was für Muslim*innen angesichts der Politisierung des Islam offensichtlich erscheint, stellt aber auch für andere, insbesondere nichtchristliche Jugendliche eine oft komplexe Herausforderung dar, bei der wiederum Diasporaverbindungen, nicht zuletzt in Form von sozialen Netzwerken und digitalen Medien, eine zentrale Rolle spielen können (siehe dazu auch Limacher/ Mattes/Novak 2019).…”

Section: Diasporagemeinden Als Bleibende Verbindung Zwischen Herkunft...unclassified

Migration & Religion

Mattes¹

2022

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How are migration and religion related? In the Austrian context, this question is mostly reduced to debates on whether Islam belongs to Austria and whether Muslims are integrated into society. The book “Migration and Religion” asks more fundamental questions. How are migration movements and changing religious landscapes connected? Which societal and institutional adaption processes are provoked by migration regarding the handling of religion? Why is religion such a dominant subject in migration discourses? Which party-political considerations concern the intersection of religion and migration? How is religion related to debates about shared values? And what are the roles of international actors when it comes to religion and migration? The author presents state-of-the-art results from the fields of research migration and religious studies in an easily understandable format. In each chapter the author discusses the issues at hand from different theoretical perspectives, to allow for a variety of angles. Readers are introduced to the perspectives of liberal theory, social constructivism, and multiculturalism, practically discussed through examples from Austria, such as the reform of the Islam Law, Christian Orthodoxy as a migrant religious community below the radar, and the ban of headscarves in schools. The book concludes by sketching future prospects for society, research, religious communities, and politics at the intersection of religion and migration.

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“…They reflect the domestic cycle; real-time needs; and contests around choices, traditions, and shared morality (Wilk 1989(Wilk , 1991. Using a household model captures the moral economy of remittances and highlights the negotiations and competing ideas that surround social reproduction, family health, and community maintenance (Atekmangoh 2017;Garbin 2019;Katigbak 2015;Solari 2019).…”

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Rethinking remittance: The socioeconomic dynamics of giving for migrants and nonmigrants

Cohen

Zotova

2021

Economic Anthropology

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The World Bank notes that officially recorded remittances reached $689 billion in 2018, including $529 billion to low-and middle-income countries. While these figures are mind-boggling and potentially render the act of migration as a clear decision, they do not communicate the social challenges that result for movers and nonmovers around migration and remitting. Our article is organized to better understand the complexities that surround remittances and the act of remitting. Based on research in Mexico and Tajikistan, we argue that while remittances are critical to household successes and can create a pathway to growth and economic success, they can also destabilize and undermine local practices as movers and nonmovers rethink life; engage in new kinds of labor; and reconsider their roles, responsibilities, and more. In the second part of our article, we argue that the dynamic effects of remittances are minimized and ignored, while their role in driving economic development is celebrated. Understanding remittance practices demands that we rethink academic boundaries and use ethnographic work to reconsider the centrality that development and economic growth often hold in our evaluations.

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Sacred remittances: money, migration and the moral economy of development in a transnational African church

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Cited by 19 publications

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Remittances and morality: family obligations, development, and the ethical demands of migration

Remittances and morality: family obligations, development, and the ethical demands of migration

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