ISBN:
9781137557162
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (256 p)
Paralleltitel:
Print version Singh, Supriya Money, Migration, and Family : India to Australia
DDC:
301
Schlagwort(e):
Sociology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Also by Supriya Singh -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Telling the Story of Five Decades of Indian Migration to Australia -- Early Indian Migrants to Australia -- Indian Migrants Quadruple, 1996-2011 -- Studying Money and Family Among Indian Migrants -- Two Phases of the Study -- Following the Family Across Borders and Over Time -- The Sociology of Money, Globalization and Communication Frame the Study -- The Connected Transnational Family -- Implications for Development, Migration and Remittance Infrastructure -- Notes
Kurzfassung:
Chapter 2: 'Dharma Is Dead': A Family Loses a Son -- Dharma's Story Encapsulates the Themes of the Book -- Dharma Discovers Himself and Is Grateful for His Family -- Dharma's Family Visits Melbourne and Finds He Was Loved -- Note -- Part II: Migration Money -- Chapter 3: Remittances Are a Currency of Care -- The Morality of Money in the Indian Family -- Sending Money Home Is a Global Phenomenon -- Remittances and Care -- Remittances Go One Way Among the Early Migrants -- Banta and Bhagwan Receive Money in Different Ways from Their Children -- Diaspora Philanthropy Is Local and Transnational
Kurzfassung:
Rodney Buys a Church in Melbourne -- The Ambiguity and Tensions of Care and Remittances -- Inheritance, Remittances and Care -- Ambika's Husband's Story: Land, Poison and Broken Relationships -- The Morality of Money Clashes with Regulatory Policy -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Gender of Migrant Money -- Daya's Story: "I Suppose an Indian Wife Has to Give In" -- Women Slide in Financial Status with Migration -- The Maleness of Money -- The Gendered Nature of Inheritance -- Women Send Gifts, Not Remittances -- Diaspora Philanthropy Is Getting Less Male -- Changes in the Gender of Money
Kurzfassung:
Anita Looks After Her Father as Care Arrangements Change -- "I Am Not Going to Do the 'Gender' Thing": Changing the Maleness of Property -- Male Money and Financial Abuse -- Family Violence in Australia5 -- Negotiating the Management and Control of Money in the Home -- Ekta's Story: Her Money Belongs to Her Husband and His Family -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Recent Migrants Transform the Narrative of Remittances -- Money Flows Two Ways for Recent Migrants and Their Transnational Families -- Continuities of Sending Money Home -- Akash Pays for His Sister's Wedding and Builds a New House for His Parents
Kurzfassung:
Parents Send Money for Education -- Parents Help Sons Buy a Home and Set Up Business -- Fateh Buys His Son a House -- Parents Bring Money When They Move to Australia -- Transforming the Narrative of Remittances -- Notes -- Part III: Communication, Money and Family -- Chapter 6: Communication, Money and the Transnational Family -- Early Migrants: Air Letters and Occasional Visits -- Early Migrants: A One-Way Flow of Communication -- The Unraveling of a Transnational Family: Hema's Story -- Personal Communication in a "Connected" Transnational Family
Kurzfassung:
Recent Migrants Choose Media for Personal Communication
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