Migrant Remittances in South Asia

Migrant Remittances in South Asia: An Introduction; Md Mizanur Rahman, Tan Tai Yong and AKM Ahsan Ullah PART I: REMITTANCE AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 1. Understanding Remittances: Theoretical and Methodological Issues; Md Mizanur Rahman and Lian Kwen Fee 2. Gender and Remittances: Remodelling Remittance Exposure; AKM Ahsan Ullah PART II: REMITTANCE TRANSFER SYSTEMS 3. Formal Remittances: Costs and efficiencies of remittance transfers to South Asia; Bhupal Singh 4. Social Organization of Hundi: Informal Remittance Transfers to South Asia; Md Mizanur Rahman and Brenda S.A. Yeoh PART III: IMPLICATIONS OF REMITTANCES IN SOUTH ASIA 5. The social dynamics of remittance-receiving in Pakistan: Agency and opportunity among non-migrants in a transnational social field; Marta Bivand Erdal 6. Remittances and SME Development: Reflections from South Asia; Rita Afsar 7. Gendering Remittances: Contested Masculinities among Bangladeshi Muslim Male Immigrants in New York City; Natacha Stevanovic-Fenn 8. Globalization of Remittances in India: Toward a Sociological Perspective; Vani S Kulkarni 9. When Money Follows the Corpse: Remittances of Deceased Migrants in South Asia; AKM Ahsan Ullah and Mallik Akram Hossain 10. Fertility Responses to Migrant Remittances in Pakistan; Mazhar Mughal an Amar Anwar 11. Migrants' Private Giving and Development in Central Gujarat, India; Puja Guha 12. Uses and Impacts of Remittances in Nepal; Bhubanesh Pant