Editors: Izabela Grabowska, Warsaw and Michał P. Garapich, London
More than a decade after the pioneering study and conceptualisation of social remittances by Peggy Levitt, the idea has generated a significant amount of empirical research and theoretical reflection. World moves on however, much faster than research can catch up with it and in contemporary conditions of fragmented modernity and multi-layered global interconnectedness there is a pressing need for further clarification and in-depth conceptualisation of the ways and consequences of the flow of ideas, norms and practices in transnational social fields. Is the relationship between social remittances and development
a linear and goal-oriented assumption taken for granted, or it needs to be adapted to a specific context? What about remittances between developed
countries? And what about the contradictions between the local and
national effects of remittances? And where in that domain human agency
exercises moth influence and why? How do we account for lack of social
remittances in given situations? Clearly, time is ripe for a fresh
perspective on the old question of cultural and social diffusion with an
emphasis on contemporary migration dynamics.
More than a decade after the pioneering study and conceptualisation of social remittances by Peggy Levitt, the idea has generated a significant amount of empirical research and theoretical reflection. World moves on however, much faster than research can catch up with it and in contemporary conditions of fragmented modernity and multi-layered global interconnectedness there is a pressing need for further clarification and in-depth conceptualisation of the ways and consequences of the flow of ideas, norms and practices in transnational social fields. Is the relationship between social remittances and development
a linear and goal-oriented assumption taken for granted, or it needs to be adapted to a specific context? What about remittances between developed
countries? And what about the contradictions between the local and
national effects of remittances? And where in that domain human agency
exercises moth influence and why? How do we account for lack of social
remittances in given situations? Clearly, time is ripe for a fresh
perspective on the old question of cultural and social diffusion with an
emphasis on contemporary migration dynamics.
