Offers valuable insights into remittance dynamics in conflict-affected settings, a rarely studied area A perspective on everyday life in the Somali regions and the diaspora Features a transnational view encompassing three contrasting locations A multi-method, interdisciplinary approach
Offers valuable insights into remittance dynamics in conflict-affected settings, a rarely studied area A perspective on everyday life in the Somali regions and the diaspora Features a transnational view encompassing three contrasting locations A multi-method, interdisciplinary approach
Anna Lindley is a Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The study on which this book is based was carried out while working at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University.
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List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1. Migration, Conflict and Development: Situating Refugees' Remittances * Migration-Development Linkages * Conflict and Local-Global Connections * The Livelihoods of Refugees * Approach Chapter 2. The Somali Context: People and Money on the Move * Nomadism, Sedentarism, Urbanisation * Extra-regional Connections * Postcolonial Republic: Refugee Arrivals, Labour Migrants and Political Exiles * Civil War and Diasporisation * Feedback: a Wartime Remittance Economy * Xawilaad: Crisis as a Business Opportunity * From 'Dirty Money' to 'Humanitarian Lifeline'? * Beyond Collapse: Grasping Continuities and Change Chapter 3. Migration and Remittances in a Precarious State: the View from Hargeisa * Oppression, Insurgency and Crisis: Diaspora Dimensions * From Translocal to Transnational Families * Coping in a Tough Economy * Investing Diaspora Capital * Following the Money into the Wider Community * The Diaspora in Post-Conflict Politics and Development * Beyond Complacency: Migration-Conflict-Development Contingencies Chapter 4. Traffic at a Global Crossroads: Eastleigh, Nairobi * From the Northern Frontier to New Horizons in Nairobi * Remittance Traffic, Mobility and Strategic Households * Going into Business * A Global Crossroads * Beyond Categories: Making a Living, Circulation and Containment Chapter 5. The North-South Divide in Everyday Life: Londoners Sending Money 'Home' * Seeking Asylum * Settling in a Global City * Who Pays the Biil? * The Social Micro-dynamics of Remittances * Economic Sacrifices and Strategies, Social Reaffirmation and Tensions * Beyond Economics: the Violent Origins and Social Texture of Remitting Chapter 6. Concluding Reflections Glossary References Index
List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1. Migration, Conflict and Development: Situating Refugees' Remittances * Migration-Development Linkages * Conflict and Local-Global Connections * The Livelihoods of Refugees * Approach Chapter 2. The Somali Context: People and Money on the Move * Nomadism, Sedentarism, Urbanisation * Extra-regional Connections * Postcolonial Republic: Refugee Arrivals, Labour Migrants and Political Exiles * Civil War and Diasporisation * Feedback: a Wartime Remittance Economy * Xawilaad: Crisis as a Business Opportunity * From 'Dirty Money' to 'Humanitarian Lifeline'? * Beyond Collapse: Grasping Continuities and Change Chapter 3. Migration and Remittances in a Precarious State: the View from Hargeisa * Oppression, Insurgency and Crisis: Diaspora Dimensions * From Translocal to Transnational Families * Coping in a Tough Economy * Investing Diaspora Capital * Following the Money into the Wider Community * The Diaspora in Post-Conflict Politics and Development * Beyond Complacency: Migration-Conflict-Development Contingencies Chapter 4. Traffic at a Global Crossroads: Eastleigh, Nairobi * From the Northern Frontier to New Horizons in Nairobi * Remittance Traffic, Mobility and Strategic Households * Going into Business * A Global Crossroads * Beyond Categories: Making a Living, Circulation and Containment Chapter 5. The North-South Divide in Everyday Life: Londoners Sending Money 'Home' * Seeking Asylum * Settling in a Global City * Who Pays the Biil? * The Social Micro-dynamics of Remittances * Economic Sacrifices and Strategies, Social Reaffirmation and Tensions * Beyond Economics: the Violent Origins and Social Texture of Remitting Chapter 6. Concluding Reflections Glossary References Index
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