A Socio-Economic Analysis of Migrants' Telephone Money Transfers

Special Report: Connected Migrants. Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Mobility, and Migrations
By David Bounie, Dana Diminescu, Abel François
English

Since the 2005 Barcelona agreement between telephone operators, the procedures whereby migrants transfer money have changed radically, and banks now propose telephone services. By identifying the type of relationship between migrants and addressees, as well as the amounts of the transactions, the authors show that these new procedures have increased people's autonomy. Migrants have been relieved of a social weight and what used to be a kind of informal engagement. They can now clearly separate the transferral of money to their families, from the constitution of their own savings in their home country.

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