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Author:   Magdalena Nowicka ,  Vojin Šerbedžija
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349931309

ISBN 10:   1349931306
Pages:   321
Publication Date:   04 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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0. An Introduction to the Debate:  Migration and Remittances in a Global Europe; Magdalena Nowicka and Vojin Šerbedžija.- Part 1: Circulating Social Remittances within Europe.- 1. Reflexive Mediterranisation: Mobilities, Economies, and the Cultural Remittance of Imaginaries; Regina Römhild.- 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; Łukasz Krzyżowski.- 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 Akçınar.- 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 Suksomboon Brown.- 8.Transacting Care Transnationally: Remittances and Agency within Global Care Chains; Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy.- 9. Transnational Health Insurances as Social Remittances: The case of Congolese Immigrants in Belgium; Jean-Michel Lafleur and Olivier Lizin.- Part 4: Social Remittances and Social Transformations.- 10. The Politics of Remittances: Implications for Development;Thomas Lacroix.- 11. The Circulation of Transnational Islamic Charity; Kaja Borchgrevink and Marta Bivand Erdal.- 12. Skilled Indians in Europe: Knowledge Transfer and Social Impact; Gabriela Tejad.- 13.Concluding Remarks;Roland Robertson  

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Magdalena Nowicka is Professor of Migration and Transnationalism at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Her interests bring together migration studies, social theory and the sociology of space.  Vojin Šerbedžija is Doctoral Researcher as part of the TRANSFORmIG project at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on the transcultural activities of Polish migrants in Berlin and their effects on interethnic relations at neighbourhood level.

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