Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Transnational Remittances and Gendered Status Enhancement in Rural Bangladesh....Pages 27-49
Remittances and Women’s Agency: Managing Networks of Obligation among Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand....Pages 50-81
“Good” Sons and “Dutiful” Daughters: A Structural Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of the Migration and Remittance Behaviour of Northern Thai International Migrants....Pages 82-110
“So They Remember Me When I’m Gone”: Remittances, Fatherhood and Gender Relations of Filipino Migrant Men....Pages 111-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing and Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka....Pages 139-164
Differential Impacts of Migration on the Family Networks of Older People in Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis....Pages 165-193
Migration, Remittances and Social and Spatial Organisation of Rural Households in China....Pages 194-226
Filipino Children and the Affective Economy of Saving and Being Saved: Remittances and Debts in Transnational Migrant Families....Pages 227-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Rethinking Remittances through Emotion: Filipina Migrant Labourers in Singapore and Transnational Families Undone....Pages 257-282
Transnational Labour Migration, Debts and Family Economics in Vietnam....Pages 283-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-331