Money Matters in Migration

Money shapes all aspects of migration. This book explains how and why, focusing on policy, participation, and citizenship.

Migration, participation, and citizenship are central political and social concerns all deeply affected by money. Money's role in migration is understudied, overlooked, and analytically underdeveloped. Money affects migration laws and policies for migrants, their families and employers, and sending and receiving societies.Migration, participation, and citizenship, are central political and social concerns, are deeply affected by money. The role of money - tangible, intangible, conceptual, and as a policy tool - is understudied, overlooked, and analytically underdeveloped. For sending and receiving societies, migrants, their families, employers, NGOs, or private institutions, money defines the border, inclusion or exclusion, opportunity structures, and equality or the lack thereof. Through the analytical lens of money, the chapters in this book expose hidden and sometimes contradictory policy objectives, unwanted consequences, and inconsistent regulatory structures. The authors from a range of fields provide multiple perspectives on how money shapes decisions from all actors in migration trajectories, from micro to macro level. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book draws on case studies from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. This comprehensive overview brings to light the deep global impacts money has on migration and citizenship.