Les Mbengis - Migration, Gender, and Family : The moral economy of transnational Cameroonian migrants� remittances /

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This book is about transnational migration (familiarly called "bushfalling") and remittance flows to Cameroon. With the current dire economic state, Cameroonians increasingly aspire to go abroad to make a living. Migrants achieve this through a collective (family) strategy and with the hel...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Atekmangoh, Christina (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Transnationalism.
Cameroonians > Foreign countries.
Emigrant remittances > Cameroon.
Cameroon > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Cameroon > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Migration and remittances : an overview
  • 3. Cameroonian transnational migration and remittances : a pluri-local research agenda
  • 4. Contextual background : the socio-cultural, historical, geographical, and political features of Cameroon and Cameroonian migration
  • 5. Why Cameroonians migrate : the socio-cultural, moral, and economic
  • 6. How Cameroonians migrate
  • 7. Understanding marriage, birth and death practices in the context of Cameroonian migration and remittances
  • 8. "I am not a money-making machine" : on the moral economy of remittances
  • 9. Sorcery threats in migration and remittance flows
  • 10. Conclusion.

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