Vari-Lavoisier Ilka
University of Pennsylvania, CASI, 3600 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA ; Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, DIAL, 4, rue d'Enghien, 75010 Paris, France.
Comp Migr Stud. 2016;4(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s40878-016-0039-6. Epub 2016 Nov 3.
This paper shows how economic remittances undergird the circulation of social remittances between New York, Paris, and Dakar. It compares the transnational practices of Senegalese-born migrants living in France and in the United States during the 2012 Senegalese presidential campaign to demonstrate how economic and political transnational practices mutually reinforce each other. This paper contributes to scholarship in three key ways: it confirms the benefits of combining qualitative and quantitative transnational data, collected from origin and destination countries. It offers a welcome geographic extension to a literature on social remittances from which Africa remains absent. It makes a significant theoretical contribution by connecting economic sociology and migration studies to illuminate the impact of migrants' transnational practices.
本文展示了经济汇款如何支撑纽约、巴黎和达喀尔之间社会汇款的流通。它比较了2012年塞内加尔总统竞选期间生活在法国和美国的塞内加尔出生移民的跨国实践，以说明经济和政治跨国实践如何相互强化。本文在三个关键方面对学术研究有所贡献：它证实了结合从原籍国和目的地国收集的定性和定量跨国数据的益处。它为关于社会汇款的文献提供了一个受欢迎的地理扩展，而非洲在该文献中一直缺席。它通过将经济社会学和移民研究联系起来，以阐明移民跨国实践的影响，做出了重大的理论贡献。
