Rethinking family relations through the allocation of emigration’s resources: Senegalese migrants’ use of e-commerce Cover Image

Rethinking family relations through the allocation of emigration’s resources: Senegalese migrants’ use of e-commerce
Rethinking family relations through the allocation of emigration’s resources: Senegalese migrants’ use of e-commerce

Author(s): Melissa Blanchard
Subject(s): Economy, Family and social welfare, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Senegal; migration; remittances; family; on-line shopping;

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on a website which allows Senegalese migrants to purchase at a distance provisions they want delivered in Senegal, in order to overcome the problem of control over remittances’ use. It shows how new economic practices may carry new social meanings, in this case a shift in the conception of obligations and roles within the family. Whether it is their exposure to diverse ways of living that leads migrants to rethink their family relations, or whether migration just accelerates the consolidation of ideas that already exist in the home country, has yet to be determined.

  • Issue Year: 10/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 47-55
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English