What is it about?
This mixed methods study sets out to determine how emotions come into play as families strive to use overseas remittances productively.
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Why is it important?
Since remittance-earning is an emotional affair, those who help overseas migrants and their households must determine how to help these families in terms of making their financial behaviors and emotional dispositions work in harmony.
Perspectives
Emotional earmarking within overseas migrant households helps them handle family relationships and their financial resources, especially when they are financially literate.
Mr. Jeremaiah Opiniano
University of Santo Tomas
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This page is a summary of: Emotional Earmarking: Insights into Remittances and Emotions from a Mixed Methods Study of Migrant Households in Rural Philippines, International Migration Review, October 2024, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/01979183241290749.
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