Money, Migration, and Family

Supriya Singh is Professor of Sociology of Communications at RMIT University, Australia. Her research interests cover gender and financial inclusion, money and banking, globalization, migration and the transnational family. Her latest books are Globalization and Money: A Global South Perspective (2013) and The Girls Ate Last (2013).

• Part A: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Telling the story of five decades of Indian migration to Australia.- Chapter 2: 'Dharma is dead': A Family loses a son.- Part B: Migration Money.- Chapter 3: Remittances are a currency of care.- Chapter 4: The gender of migrant money.- Chapter 5: Recent migrants transform the narrative of remittances.- Part C: Communication, Money and Family.- Chapter 6: Communication, money and the narrative of remittances.- Part D: The Migration Experience: From Settlement to Mobility.- Chapter 7: A Story of settlement.- Chapter 8: Recent student migrants: A story of mobility.- Part E: The Transnational Joint Family.- Chapter 9: Recent migrants re-imagine the joint family.- Part F: Conclusion.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Money, migration and the family.