Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaAre all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers
This paper provides a detailed analysis of financial remittances to families in ru-ral Andean Ecuador. Five different types of transfers are identified and analyzed:family maintenance remittances, migrants savings, debt repayment, emergencymoney, and gift money. In each case, the dollars families re...
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El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C.
2015
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| description | This paper provides a detailed analysis of financial remittances to families in ru-ral Andean Ecuador. Five different types of transfers are identified and analyzed:family maintenance remittances, migrants savings, debt repayment, emergencymoney, and gift money. In each case, the dollars families receive as remittanceshave various meanings. In order to fully understand migrants money transfers totheir families, the relationships between senders and receivers, which include mu-tualand sometimes divergingexpectations and obligations, need to be takeninto account. These relationships are complex, and shaped by gender, age, andkinship considerations. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO874932022-03-22T17:46:15Z Are all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers Diana Mata-Codesal Demografía 1 remittances 2 transnational families 3 gender 4 Andes 5 Ecuador This paper provides a detailed analysis of financial remittances to families in ru-ral Andean Ecuador. Five different types of transfers are identified and analyzed:family maintenance remittances, migrants savings, debt repayment, emergencymoney, and gift money. In each case, the dollars families receive as remittanceshave various meanings. In order to fully understand migrants money transfers totheir families, the relationships between senders and receivers, which include mu-tualand sometimes divergingexpectations and obligations, need to be takeninto account. These relationships are complex, and shaped by gender, age, andkinship considerations. 2015 2022-03-22T17:46:15Z 2022-03-22T17:46:15Z artículo científico http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=15132994002 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/87493 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=151 Migraciones Internacionales application/pdf El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C. Migraciones Internacionales (México) Num.1 Vol.8 |
| spellingShingle | Demografía 1 remittances 2 transnational families 3 gender 4 Andes 5 Ecuador Diana Mata-Codesal Are all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers |
| title | Are all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers |
| title_full | Are all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers |
| title_fullStr | Are all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers |
| title_short | Are all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers |
| title_sort | are all dollars equal? the meanings behind migrants financial transfers |
| topic | Demografía 1 remittances 2 transnational families 3 gender 4 Andes 5 Ecuador |
| url | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=15132994002 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/87493 |