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http://hdl.handle.net/1843/38737| Type: | Artigo de Evento |
| Title: | International migration, remittances and housing strategies among transnational migrant households in Colombia |
| Authors: | Gisela Patricia Zapata Araujo |
| Abstract: | Migration has been recognised as one of the main strategies that families use for the production and reproduction of their livelihoods. In this sense, remittances can be understood, in the broader context of transnational family relationships, as an integral part of these livelihood strategies. In recent years, it has become evident that migrant families’ transnational relations and practices encompass all aspects of social life and have much broader effects on institutional, economic, social and cultural processes in communities and nations at both ends of the migration network. Although the debate on international migration and remittances in Latin America has advanced considerably in recent years, much remains to be understood about the multiple causes and consequences of migration and in particular, about the role of migrants as central agents in the transnational maintenance and reproduction of their families (CEPAL, 2007), as well as how these transnational ties are interwoven with other social, political and economic processes. This paper aims to fill this lacuna by examining Colombian migrants’ transnational practices along the geography of the Colombia-United Kingdom migration network, with particular reference to the intended and unintended socioeconomic outcomes that are generated by their use of remittances to finance housing investments and how these shape the long term livelihoods of migrant households in Colombia’s Coffee Region. This is important in light of calls for multi-sited empirical research that follows the transnational flows and connections of people, money and information across space (Faist, 2007; Levitt & Lamba-Nieves, 2011) and the need for understanding the extra-economic aspects of remittance behaviour (Batnitzky, McDowell, & Dyer, 2012; Goldring, 2004). It is also important because there is limited knowledge on the use and production of housing and housing finance in developing countries (Datta & Jones, 2001). The paper brings empirical data to bear on the premises that underpin discourses around the migration–development nexus by providing a more nuanced interpretation of development to account for the, often invisible, socioeconomic spinoffs that occur in the process of migrant households’ attempts to reproduce their livelihoods over the transnational social field. Thus, it contextualises the links between state policy, economic development, global financial flows and family reproduction strategies and migration experiences and aspirations. |
| Subject: | Migração |
| language: | por |
| metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
| Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
| metadata.dc.publisher.department: | FCE - DEPARTAMENTO DE DEMOGRAFIA |
| Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/38737 |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| metadata.dc.url.externa: | http://abep.org.br/xxencontro/files/paper/322-367.pdf |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Anais do VII Congresso da Associação Latino-Americana de População (ALAP) & XX Encontro Nacional da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais (ABEP) |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Evento |
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