Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home

by Hasan Mahmud

Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home argues that migrants' remittances express their sense of belonging and connectedness to their home country of origin, making an integral part of both migrants' ethnic identity and sense of what they call home. Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork with Bangladeshi migrants in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hasan Mahmud demonstrates that while migrants...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978840411
• ISBN13: 9781978840416
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher