A01=Karsten Paerregaard
anthropology
Author_Karsten Paerregaard
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community commitment
dependency
deprivation
development projects
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europe
family
family commitment
finances
funds
home communities
immigrants and emigrants
immigration and immigrants
income for home countries
invest savings in businesses
japan
labor
latin american history
migrants
migration
money
north america
personal commitment
peru
peruvian emigrants
peruvian history
political
raising money
remit money
remittances
south america
workers
Product details
- ISBN 9780520284739
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities. The book draws on first-hand ethnographic data from North and South America, Europe, and Japan to describe how Peruvians remit to relatives at home, collectively raise money to organize development projects in their regions of origin, and invest savings in business and other activities. Karsten Paerregaard challenges unqualified approval of remittances as beneficial resources of development for home communities and important income for home countries. He finds a more complex situation in which remittances can also create dependency and deprivation.
Karsten Paerregaard is a professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg. He was a fellow at the Wilson Center in 2009-10.
