Remittances, Transnational parenting, and the children left behind: Economic and psychological implications

This paper looks at the changes in parent-child relations in families divided by migration. Building on ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, surveys, and clinical cases, it analyses the interaction between the social meaning of remittances, family migration trajectories, and possible consequences of child-parent separations. The conclusion is that remittances often do not compensate for parental absence