Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia

1. Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family

1. Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family
Lan Anh Hoang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Part I. Remittances as Gendered Processes

2. Transnational Remittances and Gendered Status Enhancement in Rural Bangladesh
Nitya Rao

3. Remittances and Women’s Agency: Managing Networks of Obligation among Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand
Kyoko Kusakabe, Ruth Pearson

4. “Good” Sons and “Dutiful” Daughters: A Structural Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of the Migration and Remittance Behaviour of Northern Thai International Migrants
Teresa Sobieszczyk

5. “So They Remember Me When I’m Gone”: Remittances, Fatherhood and Gender Relations of Filipino Migrant Men
Steven McKay

Part II. Remittances and Generational Dynamics of Change

6. Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing and Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka
Michele Ruth Gamburd

7. Differential Impacts of Migration on the Family Networks of Older People in Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis
Philip Kreager, Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill

8. Migration, Remittances and Social and Spatial Organisation of Rural Households in China
C. Cindy Fan

9. Filipino Children and the Affective Economy of Saving and Being Saved: Remittances and Debts in Transnational Migrant Families
Cheryll Alipio

Part III. (Non-)Remittance and the Family in Crisis

10. Rethinking Remittances through Emotion: Filipina Migrant Labourers in Singapore and Transnational Families Undone
Sallie Yea

11. Transnational Labour Migration, Debts and Family Economics in Vietnam
Lan Anh Hoang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Keywords: Economics, Development Economics, Migration, Asian Economics, Development Studies, Labor Economics