Anna Lindley

The Early Morning Phonecall (eBook, ePUB)

Somali Refugees' Remittances

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Produktbeschreibung

As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. Despite considerable research on the impact of migration and remittances in countries of origin - increasingly viewed as a source of development capital - still little is known about refugees' remittances to conflict-affected countries because such funds are most often seen as a source of conflict finance. This book explores the dynamics, infrastructure, and far-reaching effects of remittances from the perspectives of people in the Somali regions and the diaspora. With conflict driving mass displacement, Somali society has become progressively transnational, its vigorous remittance economy reaching from the heart of the global North into wrecked cities, refugee camps, and remote rural areas. By 'following the money' the author opens a window on the everyday lives of people caught up in processes of conflict, migration, and development. The book demonstrates how, in the interstices of state disruption and globalisation, and in the shadow of violence and political uncertainty, life in the Somali regions goes on, subject to complex transnational forms of social, economic, and political innovation and change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781845458324
• Artikelnr.: 39603912

Autorenporträt

Anna Lindley is a Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The study on which this book is based was carried out while working at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Migration, Conflict and Development: Situating Refugees'
Remittances
* Migration-Development Linkages
* Conflict and Local-Global Connections
* The Livelihoods of Refugees
* Approach
Chapter 2. The Somali Context: People and Money on the Move
* Nomadism, Sedentarism, Urbanisation
* Extra-regional Connections
* Postcolonial Republic: Refugee Arrivals, Labour Migrants and
Political Exiles
* Civil War and Diasporisation
* Feedback: a Wartime Remittance Economy
* Xawilaad: Crisis as a Business Opportunity
* From 'Dirty Money' to 'Humanitarian Lifeline'?
* Beyond Collapse: Grasping Continuities and Change
Chapter 3. Migration and Remittances in a Precarious State: the View from
Hargeisa
* Oppression, Insurgency and Crisis: Diaspora Dimensions
* From Translocal to Transnational Families
* Coping in a Tough Economy
* Investing Diaspora Capital
* Following the Money into the Wider Community
* The Diaspora in Post-Conflict Politics and Development
* Beyond Complacency: Migration-Conflict-Development Contingencies
Chapter 4. Traffic at a Global Crossroads: Eastleigh, Nairobi
* From the Northern Frontier to New Horizons in Nairobi
* Remittance Traffic, Mobility and Strategic Households
* Going into Business
* A Global Crossroads
* Beyond Categories: Making a Living, Circulation and Containment
Chapter 5. The North-South Divide in Everyday Life: Londoners Sending Money
'Home'
* Seeking Asylum
* Settling in a Global City
* Who Pays the Biil?
* The Social Micro-dynamics of Remittances
* Economic Sacrifices and Strategies, Social Reaffirmation and Tensions
* Beyond Economics: the Violent Origins and Social Texture of Remitting
Chapter 6. Concluding Reflections
Glossary
References
Index