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"Gifting remittances" describes a range of scholarly approaches relating remittances to anthropological literature on gift giving. The terms draws on Lisa Cliggett's "gift remitting",[1] but is used to describe a wider body of work. Broadly speaking, remittances are the money, goods, services, and knowledge that migrants send back to their home communities or families. Remittances are typically considered as the economic transactions from migrants to those at home.[2] While remittances are also a subject of international development and policy debate [3] and sociological and economic literature,[4] this article focuses on ties with literature on gifting and reciprocity or gift economy founded largely in the work of Marcel Mauss and Marshall Sahlins. While this entry focuses on remittances of money or goods, remittances also take the form of ideas and knowledge. For more on these, see Peggy Levitt's work on "social remittances" which she defines as "the ideas, behaviors, identities, and social capital that flow from receiving to sending country communities."[5]
^Cliggett 2003
^Trager 2005
^See Hernandez and Coutin (2006) for a discussion of how remittances are treated as national and international resources for development and migration policy.
^See, for example, Peggy Levitt 1998; 2001; Tumama Cowley 2004.
^Levitt 1998:927
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