Transnational Family Ties, Remittance Motives, and Social Death among Congolese Migrants: A Socio-Anthropological Analysis.

This article investigates how transnational familial links and socio-cultural dynamics shape migrants' remitting behavior and inform their relationships. It shows that most research on remittances fails to capture migrants' personal and social significance of remittances embedded not only in their t...

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Published in:	Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 225 - 244
Main Author:	Peter, Kankonde Bukasa
Format:	Article
Published:	Journal of Comparative Family Studies Spring 2010
Subjects:	Remittances Communities Transnationalism Immigrants South Africa
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