‘If it is not too expensive, then you can send me sugar’: money matters among migrants and their families

References

• Baily, S. (1999). Immigrants in the land of promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870–1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Barton, A. (1975). Letters from the promised land. Swedes in America, 1840-1914. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• Berend, I. T. (2006). An economic history of Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511800627
   Google Scholar
• Blegen, T. (1955). Land of their choice: The immigrants write home. St Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• Boneva, B. S., & Frieze, I. H. (2001). Toward a concept of a migrant personality. Journal of Social Issues, 57, 477–491.10.1111/josi.2001.57.issue-3
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brettell, C. B., & Hollifield, J. F. (Eds.). (2000). Migration theory. Talking across disciplines. New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Brinks, H. (Ed.). (1995). Dutch American voices: Letters from the United States, 1850–1930. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Cameron, W., Haines, S., & Maude, M. M. (Eds.). (2000). English immigrant voices: Labourers’ letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Cancian, S. (2007). Intersecting labour and social networks across cities and borders. Studi Emigrazione/ Migration Studies, 166( April-June), 313–326.
   Google Scholar
• Cancian, S. (2010). Families, lovers, and their letters: Italian postwar migration to Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
   Google Scholar
• Cancian, S. (2012). The language of gender in lovers’ correspondence, 1946-1949, Special issue: Gender history across epistemologies. Gender & History Journal, 24 (November), 755–765.
   Google Scholar
• Cancian, S., & Gabaccia, D. R. (2013). Migrant Letters Enter the Digital Age: The Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project at the IHRC. Retrieved from http://ihrc.umn.edu/research/dil/index.html
   Google Scholar
• Cancian, S., & Wegge, S. A. (2014). Exploring the digitizing immigrant letters project as a teaching tool. Journal of American Ethnic History, 33, 34–40.10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.4.0034
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chiswick, B. R. (2000). Are immigrants favorably self-selected? An economic analysis. In C. B. Brettell & J. F. Hollifield (Eds.), Migration theory. Talking across disciplines (pp. 61–76). New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Cohen, J. H. (2005). Remittance outcomes and migration: Theoretical contests, real opportunities. Studies in Comparative International Development, 40, 88–112.10.1007/BF02686290
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Conway, A. (Ed.). (1961). The Welsh in America. Letters from the immigrants. St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• de Haas, H. (2007). Remittances, migration and social development: A conceptual review of the literature. In Social policy and development programme paper number 34. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (October), http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/search/8B7D005E37FFC77EC12573A600439846?OpenDocument (accessed March 13, 2016).
   Google Scholar
• Decker, W. (1998). Epistolary practices: Letter writing in America before telecommunications. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
   Google Scholar
• Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project. 2009. Immigration Research History Center, University of Minnesota, archives.ihrc.umn.edu/dil/index.html
   Google Scholar
• Dinesen, I., & Lasson, F. (1981). Letters from Africa, 1914–1931. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Erickson, C. (1972). Invisible immigrants. The adaptation of English and Scottish immigrants in 19th-Century America. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fitzpatrick, D. (1994). Oceans of consolation. Personal accounts of Irish migration to Australia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Frevert, U. (2011). Emotions in history – Lost and found. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2011.10.7829/9786155053344Frevert
   Google Scholar
• Gabaccia, D. R. (1984). From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and social change among Italian immigrants 1880–1930. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gabaccia, D. R. (1994). From the other side: Women, gender, and immigrant life in the U.S. 18820-1990. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gerber, D. A. (1997). The immigrant letter between positivism and populism: The uses of immigrant personal correspondence in twentieth-century American scholarship. Journal of American Ethnic History, 16, 3–34.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gerber, D. A. (2004). What is it we seek to find in first-person documents? Documenting society and cultural practices in Irish immigrant writings. Reviews in American History, 32, 305–316.10.1353/rah.2004.0043
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gerber, D. A. (2005). Acts of deceiving and withholding in immigrant letters: Personal identity and self-presentation in personal correspondence. Journal of Social History, 39 ( Winter), 315–330.10.1353/jsh.2005.0136
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gerber, D. (2006). Authors of their Lives: The personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the 19th century. New York, NY: New York University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ghosh, M. (2006). Migrants’ remittances and development: Myths, rhetoric and realities. Geneva and The Hague: International Organization on Migration and The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration.
   Google Scholar
• Hale, F. (Ed.). (1984). Danes in North America. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press.
   Google Scholar
• Harrison, M. (2014). Communism and economic modernization. In S. A. Smith (Ed.), The Oxford handbook in the history of communism (pp. 387–406). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Holton, S. S. (2007). Quaker women: Personal life, memory and radicalism in the lives of women friends, 1780–1930. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Houston, C., & Smyth, W. (1990). Irish emigration and Canadian settlement: Patterns, links, and letters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
   Google Scholar
• Jaeger, D., Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., Sunde, U., & Bonin, H. (2010). Direct evidence on risk attitudes and migration. Review of Economics and Statistics, 92, 684–689.10.1162/REST_a_00020
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamphoefner, W., Helbich, W., & Sommer, U. (Eds.). (1991). News from the land of freedom: German immigrants write home. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Landes, D. S. (1998). The wealth and poverty of nations. Why some are so rich and some so poor. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
   Google Scholar
• Liu, H. (2005). The transnational history of a Chinese family: Immigrant letters, family business, and reverse migration. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mani, A., Mullainathan, S., Shafir, E., & Zhao, J. (2013). Poverty impedes cognitive function. Science, 30 (August), 341, 976–980.10.1126/science.1238041
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martin, P. L. (1993). The migration issue. In R. King (Ed.), The new geography of European migrations pp. 1–16. London: Belhaven.
   Google Scholar
• Matt, S. J., & Stearns, P. N., eds. (2014). Doing emotions history. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
   Google Scholar
• Mckay, D. (2007). ‘Sending dollars shows feeling’ – Emotions and economies in Filipino migration. Mobilities, 2, 175–194.10.1080/17450100701381532
   Google Scholar
• Miller, K. A., Schrier, A., Boling, B. D., & Doyle, D. N. (2003). Irish immigrants in the land of Canaan: Letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America, 1675–1815. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mullainathan, S., & Shafir, E. (2013). Scarcity. Why having too little means so much. New York, NY: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company.
   Google Scholar
• Plamper, J. (2015). The history of emotions: An introduction. (K. Tribe, Trans.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Reeder, L. (2003). Widows in white: Migration and the transformation of rural Italian women, Sicily, 1880–1920. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
   Google Scholar
• Rosenwein, B. H. (2002). Worrying about emotions in history. The American Historical Review, 107, 821–845.10.1086/587011
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rumbaut, R. G. (1994). Origins and destinies: Immigration to the United States since World War II. Sociological Forum, 9, 583–621.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schapera, I. (1941). Married life in an African Tribe. New York, NY: Sheridan House.
   Google Scholar
• Singh, S. (2006). Towards a sociology of money and family in the Indian diaspora. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 40, 375–398.10.1177/006996670604000304
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sinke, S. (2002). Dutch immigrant women in the United States, 1880–1920. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
   Google Scholar
• Thomas, W. I., & Znaniecki, F. (1918–1920). The Polish peasant in Europe and America. Boston, MA: Gorham Press.
   Google Scholar
• Wegge, S. A. (1998). Chain migration and information networks: Evidence from nineteenth-century Hesse-Cassel. The Journal of Economic History, 58, 957–986.10.1017/S0022050700021689
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wegge, S. A. (2008). Network strategies of nineteenth century Hesse-Cassel emigrants. The History of the Family, 13, 296–314.10.1016/j.hisfam.2008.08.002
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wegge, S. A. (2015). Uncommon destinies: 19th century Hessians who emigrated to the Southern Hemisphere. Unpublished working paper. Revised June 2015.
   Google Scholar
• Witold Kula, Nina Assorodobraj-Kula, Marcin Kula. (1986). Writing home: Immigrants in Brazil and the United States, 1890–1891. Edited and translated by Josephine Wtulich. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Yans-McLaughlin, V. (1977). Family and Community: Italian immigrants in Buffalo, 1880–1930. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
   Google Scholar