Transnational labour migration, remittances and the changing family in asia

Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia Edited by Lan Anh Hoang Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia and Brenda S.. Ye

Transnational Labour

Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family

in Asia

Edited by

Lan Anh Hoang

Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

and

Brenda S A Yeoh

Professor of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Contents

1 Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family 1

lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S A Yeoh

Part I Remittances as Gendered Processes

2 Transnational Remittances and Gendered Status

Nitya Rao

3 Remittances and Women's Agency: Managing Networks of

Obligation among Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand 50

Kyoko Kusakabe and Ruth Pearson

4 "Good" Sons and "Dutiful" Daughters: A Structural

Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of the Migration and

Remittance Behaviour of Northern Thai International

Teresa Sobieszczyk

5 "So They Remember Me When I'm Gone": Remittances,

Fatherhood and Gender Relations of Filipino Migrant Men 111

Steven McKay

Part II Remittances and Generational Dynamics of

Change

6 Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing and

Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka 139

Michele Ruth Gamburd

7 Differential Impacts of Migration on the Family Networks

of Older People in Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis 165

Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill

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8 Migration, Remittances and Social and Spatial

Organisation of Rural Households in China 194

C Cindy Fan

9 Filipino Children and the Affective Economy of Saving

and Being Saved: Remittances and Debts in Transnational

Cheryll Alipio

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

10 Rethinking Remittances through Emotion: Filipina

Migrant Labourers in Singapore and Transnational

Sallie Yea

11 Transnational Labour Migration, Debts and Family

Lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S A Yeoh