Are all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers

dc.creator	Diana Mata-Codesal
dc.date	2015
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-22T17:46:15Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-22T17:46:15Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=15132994002
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/87493
dc.description	This paper provides a detailed analysis of financial remittances to families in ru-ral Andean Ecuador. Five different types of transfers are identified and analyzed:family maintenance remittances, migrants savings, debt repayment, emergencymoney, and gift money. In each case, the dollars families receive as remittanceshave various meanings. In order to fully understand migrants money transfers totheir families, the relationships between senders and receivers, which include mu-tualand sometimes divergingexpectations and obligations, need to be takeninto account. These relationships are complex, and shaped by gender, age, andkinship considerations.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C.
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=151
dc.rights	Migraciones Internacionales
dc.source	Migraciones Internacionales (México) Num.1 Vol.8
dc.subject	Demografía
dc.subject	1 remittances
dc.subject	2 transnational families
dc.subject	3 gender
dc.subject	4 Andes
dc.subject	5 Ecuador
dc.title	Are all Dollars Equal? The Meanings Behind Migrants Financial Transfers
dc.type	artículo científico