{"product_id":"remittance-as-belonging-hasan-mahmud-9781978840409","title":"Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home","description":"\u003ci\u003eRemittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home\u003c\/i\u003e 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 go abroad for various reasons, they do not travel alone. Although they leave behind their families in Bangladesh, they move abroad essentially as members of their family and community and maintain their belonging to home through transnational practices, including remittance sending. By conceptualizing remittance as an expression of migrants' belonging, this book presents detailed accounts of the emergence, growth, decline, and revival of remittances as a function of transformations in migrants' sense of belonging to home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hasan Mahmud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978840403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978840409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Hasan Mahmud","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372604936447,"sku":"9781978840409","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a85b2ca-796c-4269-8a89-29a0115566f4.jpg?v=1732726435","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/remittance-as-belonging-hasan-mahmud-9781978840409","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}