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Sending ideas back home: Exploring the potential of South-South social remittances in the United Republic of Tanzania

Sending ideas back home: Exploring the potential of South-South social remittances in the United Republic of Tanzania

While the relevance of financial remittances for developing countries is well documented and has gained attention during the last years as an important and stable source of external development, the flows of ideas, knowledge, behaviours and social capital transmitted by migrants to their families, friends and communities in their home countries, defined as “social remittances”, is still overlooked. This study on migrants from the United Republic of Tanzania in countries of the global South, their relatives and their friends, explores the potential of social remittances and the findings reveal that social remittances in the United Republic of Tanzania have a strong impact and influence on education, health, employment, business and governance.

Fecha de publicación
Tipo de material
Report
Destinatarios
Academia
Civil Society
Government
Intergovernmental Organization
Autor
Linda Helgesson Sekei
Annette Altvater
Jacob Charles Mrema
Adelaide Kisinda
Fuente/Editorial
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
ACP Observatory on Migration
Idioma
English
Ámbito geográfico
Regional
Country
Nacional
Tanzania, United Republic of
Regional
Africa
Grupo de trabajo
No
Proceso de revisión regional
No
Objetivos del Pacto Mundial para la Migración
Tema transversal
People-centred
Sustainable development
Palabras clave
Remittances
Status
Published

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