Rethinking social remittances and the migration-development nexus from the perspective of time
Rethinking social remittances and the migration-development nexus from the perspective of time

Summary/Abstract: This article explores how the conceptualization, management, and measurement of time affect the migration-development nexus. We focus on how social remit-tances transform the meaning and worth of time, thereby changing how these ideas and practices are accepted and valued and recalibrating the relationship be-tween migration and development. Our data reveal the need to pay closer atten-tion to how migration’s impacts shift over time in response to its changing sig-nificance, rhythms, and horizons. How does migrants’ social influence affect and change the needs, values, and mind-frames of non-migrants? How do the ways in which social remittances are constructed, perceived, and accepted change over time for their senders and receivers?

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