Migrant Remittances in South Asia

1. Migrant Remittances in South Asia: An Introduction
Md Mizanur Rahman, Tan Tai Yong, A K M Ahsan Ullah

Part I. Remittance and Conceptual Issues

2. Understanding Remittances: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Md Mizanur Rahman, Lian Kwen Fee

3. Gender and Remittances: Remodelling Remittance Exposure
A K M Ahsan Ullah

Part II. Remittance Transfer Systems

4. Formal Remittances: Costs and Efficiencies of Remittance Transfers to South Asia
Bhupal Singh

5. Social Organization of Hundi: Informal Remittance Transfer to South Asia
Md Mizanur Rahman, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Part III. Implications of Remittances in South Asia

6. The Social Dynamics of Remittance-Receiving in Pakistan: Agency and Opportunity among Non-migrants in a Transnational Social Field
Marta Bivand Erdal

7. Remittances and SME Development: Reflections from South Asia
Rita Afsar

8. Gendering Remittances: Contested Masculinities among Bangladeshi Male Immigrants in New York City
Natacha Stevanovic-Fenn

9. Globalization of Remittances in India: Towards a Sociological Perspective
Vani S. Kulkami

10. When Money Follows the Corpse: Remittances of Deceased Migrants in South Asia
A K M Ahsan Ullah, Mallik Akram Hossain

11. Fertility Responses to Migrant Remittances in Pakistan
Mazhar Mughal, Amar Anwar

12. Migrants’ Private Giving and Development in Central Gujarat, India
Puja Guha

13. Uses and Impacts of Remittances in Nepal
Bhubanesh Pant

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Economy, Asian Politics, Economic Policy, International Relations, Development Economics, International Economics