http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-0033
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ABSTRACT
Based on 324 in-depth interviews with Indian, Moroccan, Ukrainian, Bosnian and Filipino migrants based in four EU countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and the UK), our paper explores the relationship between social remittances and transnational mobility. We develop a new typology of social remittances as based on the principle of mobility. We argue that the degree to which transnational mobility is present in social remittances depends on the agency of the sender and on the nature of the receiving community. We further elaborate on such mobility-related concepts as “transnational re-scaling” (in reference to directionality of social remittances) and “translocal celebrity” (in reference to sender’s role in cultural production). Based on a large qualitative dataset, this study also contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between the local and the global.
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ORCID
Anna Triandafyllidou http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-0033
Notes
2 These categories have been adopted with modification from the classification of social remittances offered by Levitt and Jaworsky (Citation2007), who distinguish between: cultural-/social-, religious-, and political-remittances.
3 Studies recognize social civic engagement, with emphasis on non-political activities of community building or poverty fighting. See, for example, Levine (Citation2011).