What is it about?
This paper recognizes that the migrants perceive them as belonging to the family to which they send remittance. Migrants view sending remittances as a natural thing. This explanation contradicts the most popular theory about migrants' remittance that views migrants and their remittance recipients as separate entities and their remittances as motivated by altruism or self-interest.
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Why is it important?
It offers an important corrective to understanding migrants' remittances as well as their transnationalism.
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This page is a summary of: Beyond Economics: the Family, Belonging and Remittances among the Bangladeshi Migrants in Los Angeles, International Migration, January 2021, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/imig.12809.
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