Monetary and Non-Monetary Remittances within Marginalized Migrating Families

• Main Author: Katerina JANKU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Oradea, Research Centre on Identity and Migration Studies-RCIMI 2007-04-01
• Series: Journal of Identity and Migration Studies
• Subjects: Ethnographic research of migration; Social marginalization; Strategic reproduction; Remittances
• Online Access: http://www.e-migration.ro/jims/Vol1_no1/Katerina_Janku.pdf

In this paper, I am using the research experience among Czech Roma families with the migration experience and taking a look on what is being exchanged between „those who went abroad“, and „those who stayed home“ and what can be the function and consequences of it.Sending money, things, ideas etc. back and forth is the mean of closing the range between people within family and thus it facilitates the formation of transnational social ties. As individual examples of those remittances are lying open in front of us, we can see how they are part of the strategic reproduction of the “trans-nationalized” family.Thus, I understand remittances in a broader sense than the economics does. I am proposing to aim not only on salary to be sent abroad to relatively poorer environments. There are not only monetary remittances, but also material, symbolic, social and emotional ones.