Rethinking social remittances and the migration-development nexus from the perspective of time

Peggy Levitt and Deepak Lamba-Nieves
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Peggy Levitt: Wellesley College and Harvard University, USA
Deepak Lamba-Nieves: MIT and the Center for the New Economy, USA

Migration Letters, 2013, vol. 10, issue 1, 11-22

Abstract: This article explores how the conceptualization, management, and measure-ment of time affect the migration-development nexus. We focus on how social remittances transform the meaning and worth of time, thereby changing how these ideas and practices are accepted and valued and recalibrating the relationship between migration and development. Our data reveal the need to pay closer attention to how migration’s impacts shift over time in response to its changing significance, rhythms, and horizons. How does migrants’ social influence affect and change the needs, values, and mind-frames of non-migrants? How do the ways in which social remittances are constructed, perceived, and accepted change over time for their senders and receivers?

Keywords: Social remittances; migration; time; development; transnational (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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