determinants of remittances

What is it about?

Adopting a Durkheimian approach, this paper explains why Bangladeshi immigrants send remittances. It recognizes social relations between the migrants and their families and relatives as the essential foundation for remitting to occur, while migrants’ adherence to social norms, as well as a ​legal and social exclusion in the destination, causes them to participate in various qualitatively distinct remitting practices. Therefore, it argues that migrants’ social relations to the family and community cause them to remit, and changes in these relations result in subsequent changes in their remitting.

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Why is it important?

It offers an alternative explanation about why migrants send remittances. This offers a theoretically more satisfactory understanding of​ how migrants' social relations shape their remittances.