Essays about: "Social-Remittances"

Found 5 essays containing the word Social-Remittances.

1. 1. REMITTANCES AND CORRUPTION IN MIGRANTS’ COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN Corruption Experience of Remittance Recipients in Latin America and the Caribbean

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Hang Nguyen Vu; [2016-09-16]
   Keywords : monetary remittance; social remittance; migration; petty corruption; sending countries; bribe payment; bribe solicitation; multilevel model; particularistic culture; political networks; social networks;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to explore whether and how (monetary) remittance affects petty corruption in migrants’ countries of origin. Specifically, it investigates whether remittance recipients are more likely to pay bribes than non-recipients. Two arguments are put forward. READ MORE

3. 2. Impacts from Migration and Remittances in the Nepali Society - Analysing the Migration Process in Nepal

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Johan Nicander; [2015]
   Keywords : Migration; Financial-Remittances; Social-Remittances; Poverty Reduction; Development; Nepal; Brain Drain Gain ; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Nepal is one of the countries where remittances in proportion of the GDP are the highest with 28,8 per cent in 2013. A total of 7,2 per cent of Nepal’s population are found abroad and the remittances that they transfer back have been recognized to play an important role in reducing poverty in Nepal, even though critics argue that these remittances are only spent and not invested. READ MORE

4. 3. Migration, Remittances and Education: A Review of the Educational Performance of Left-behind Children in Rural China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Keqin Zhu; [2015]
   Keywords : Parental migration; Rural-urban; China; Remittance; Left-behind children; Educational performance; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The massive rural-urban population flow has been proceeding in China for decades ever since the 1980s. Millions of labor migrants move to industrialized cities for a better future for themselves, as well as their families. The increasing amount of migrants has led to the phenomenon of the “left-behind”. READ MORE

5. 4. From Sweden with Love: Turkish Migrants in Sweden and their Social Remittances

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Onursal Erol; [2012]
   Keywords : Turkish immigrants; Sweden; social remittances; normative concerns; correlational concerns; avoiders; pursuers; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is first to contribute to the theorising of the so-called ‘social remittances’. This entails an attempt to put together the reasons that qualifies the flow of social goods from migrant destinations to sending communities as remittances, as well as an endeavour to contribute to definitional clarifications on what constitutes the different natures, levels and types of these remittances and remitters. READ MORE

6. 5. Return migration, transnationalism and development : Social remittances of returnees from Sweden to Bosnia and Herzegovina

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Louisa Vogiazides; [2012]
   Keywords : Return migration; development; transnationalism; social remittances; social capital; Sweden; Bosnia and Herzegovina;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the effects of return migration on development through the case of returnees from Sweden to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on thirteen in-depth interviews and observation, it examines returnees’ ‘social remittances’, which consist of ideas, practices, and social capital (or social connections) that migrants bring to their countries of origin. READ MORE