Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia - Anthropology, Change, and Development

Marc Notes: Earlier versions of chapters in this volume were presented at the International Workshop entitled, Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia, 27th-28th July 2010 in Singapore--Acknowledgements. Table of Contents: 1. Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia; Lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S. A. YeohPART I: REMITTANCES AS GENDERED PROCESSES2. Transnational Remittances And Gendered Status Enhancement In Rural Bangladesh; Nitya Rao3. Remittances And Women's Agency: Managing Networks Of Obligation Among Burmese Migrant Workers In Thailand; Kyoko Kusakabe And Ruth Pearson4. 'Good' Sons And 'Dutiful' Daughters: A Structural Symbolic Interactionist Analysis Of The Migration And Remittance Behaviour Of Northern Thai International Migrants; Teresa Sobieszczyk5. They Remember Me When I'm Gone': Remittances, Fatherhood And Gender Relations Of Filipino Migrant Men; Steve MckayPART II: REMITTANCES AND GENERATIONAL DYNAMICS OF CHANGE6. Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing, And Intergenerational Family Obligations In Sri Lanka; Michele Ruth Gamburd7. Differential Impacts Of Migration On The Family Networks Of Older People In Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis; Philip Kreager And Elisabeth Schroder-Butterfill8. Migration, Remittances, And Social And Spatial Organization Of Rural Households In China; Cindy C. Fan9. Filipino Children And The Affective Economy Of Saving And Being Saved: Remittances And Debts In Transnational Migrant Families; Cheryll AlipioPART III: (NON) REMITTANCES AND THE FAMILY IN CRISIS10. Rethinking Remittances through Emotion: Filipina Migrant Labourers in Singapore and Transnational Families Undone; Sallie Yea11. Transnational Labour Migration, Debts, And Family Economics In Vietnam; Lan Anh Hoang And Brenda S. A. Yeoh"Biographical Note: Lan Anh Hoang is Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her main research interests include migration and transnationalism, sexuality and gender, social networks and identity, children and family. She has 10 years of research experience in Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan and Russia. Brenda S. A. Yeoh is Professor (Provost's Chair) at the Department of Geography, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also the Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities, and she has conducted wide-ranging research on migration in Asia.