Author:
Ströhle Claudius,Meyer Silke
Abstract
AbstractThis final chapter questions remittances as a global success story and sheds light on possible trends of remittance economies. Highlighting recent developments like digitalization, the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental changes, and growing global inequality, we explore the shifts and effects of remittances on transnational society. To this end, we apply a transformative perspective, embedding remittances in the actors’ relations and analyzing their cohesive as well as disruptive effects from a temporal and spatial angle. Thus, we give an outlook on the possible future of transnational society in the context of historically generated global power relations.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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