Use of Overseas Migrants' Remittances to the Extended Family for Business
Investment... A Research Note |
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Sofranko, S. J. et al.
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9/1999
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Journal
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Rural Sociology
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64(3) 464-481
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Subject Matter |
Community Development; International; Pakistan; Migrant
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Abstract |
Examines extended family influences on the use of remittances from transnational migrants, drawing on interviews with 170 family heads in a small community in Pakistan. Results show that relatively little remittance income from family members working in the Middle East was channeled into business investments, despite government incentives
offered to migrant households. Most of the extended family measures used in the
research are statistically unimportant in explaining level of business
investment. There thus appears to be little support for either modernization
theory or social capital arguments on the role of the extended family. Of five
operationalized extended family dimensions, only one was related to business
investment, & that positively. However, family considerations are not
irrelevant. The best predictors of business investment were a preexisting level
of business exposure/experience in the family & whether the family head was
aware of business investment opportunities. Results raise questions about the
need to reconceptualize family influences beyond the formal dimensions of
extended family structure. 4 Tables, 1 Figure, 37 References. Adapted from the
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