Panel 129: Transnational African Migrations, Inequality and Remittances (Ulrike Schuerkens)
Panel Organiser: Ulrike Schuerkens
The panel wants to discuss recent data on African migrants' remittances to their country of origin and the contribution of these remittances to create inequality, to contribute to a diminution of poverty in the short and/or the long run. Moreover, papers will be accepted that discuss the different amounts of remittances of various categories of migrants, such as high-skilled migrants and rural or poor urban migrants. Papers may also discuss the use of these remittances such as investments, etc.
Accepted Abstracts
Generational gap or remittances problem?
The
case of first generation refugee mothers from Somalia in Tanzania
Negotiating proximities,
desires and distances.
Remittances and the meaning of an eventual return in
Cape Verde
Development in The Horn:
Is
their a future for Diaspora-based development?
Low-income African migrant women and social exclusion
in South Africa
Remigration and development: A comparative analysis of German
trained Ghanaian and Cameroonian graduates and their reintegration into the labour force
Remittances and duration
of migration: Implications for social inequality in rural Cape Verde
Rules of engagement: The
role of urban actors in transnational investments of migrants in houses in
Accra, Ghana
Migration,
Inequality and Development
