Migration and family change in Egypt: a comparative approach to social remittances

Lucile Gruntz and Delphine Pagès-El Karoui
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Lucile Gruntz: the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sci-ences Sociales in Paris (EHESS), Centre for Historical Research (CRH), France
Delphine Pagès-El Karoui: Geography at INALCO (French Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilisations), Paris, France

Migration Letters, 2013, vol. 10, issue 1, 71-79

Abstract: Based on two ethnographical studies, our article explores social remittances from France and from the Gulf States, i.e. the way Egyptian migrants and re-turnees contribute to social change in their homeland with a focus on gender ideals and practices, as well as on the ways families cope with departure, ab-sence and return. Policies in the home and host countries, public discourse, translocal networks, and individual locations within evolving structures of power, set the frame for an analysis of the consequences of migration in Egypt. This combination of structural factors is necessary to grasp the complex negotiations of family and gender norms, as asserted through idealized models, or enacted in daily practices in immigration and back home.

Keywords: Egypt; migration; social change; family; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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