Karsten Paerregaard Return to Sender sku-44517547 Book

In Return to Sender: The Moral Economy of Peru’s Migrant Remittances, Karsten Paerregaard draws on firsthand ethnographic data from North and South America, Europe and Japan. He describes how Peruvian emigrants send money to relatives, raise funds together for development projects in their home regions, and invest savings in businesses and other activities.

He questions the view that remittances always benefit home communities and countries, finding that they can also create dependency and deprivation. Edition 1, hardcover. Listed under Latin American History Books as sku-44517547.