Remittances and a transnational moral economy: El Salvador, Togo and the Philippines in a comparative perspective (B04)

• Subject Area: Political Science
• Term: from 2016 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 266371360

This project examines through three case studies the origin and character of economic areas significantly affected by remittances: El Salvador and the US; Togo and France; and the Philippines and the US. Our starting point is a dilemma not yet recognised as a spatial phenomenon: In order to ensure regular capital flows between migrants and their families still in the home country, they transnationalize what were formally nationally organized economic territories in the Global South. However, in order to guarantee the regular flow of money, migrants are compelled to continuously send money. The response to this dilemma is the establishment of moral economies - understood as arenas in which transnational economic areas are negotiated - that link migrants to their families and home countries through interconnected spaces of local, translocal, and transnational actions.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1199: Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition
• Applicant Institution: Universität Leipzig
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Heidrun Zinecker