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Remittances, development and financialisation beyond the Global North.

Rahel Kunz¹, Julia Maisenbacher¹, Lekh Nath Paudel¹

¹IEP, Université de Lausanne Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques, Switzerland.

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Remittances are increasingly linked to financial inclusion, a process termed financialization of remittances (FOR). This research examines FOR

Keywords:

Remittances, Financialisation, Development, North-South relations, Subjectivities, Contestation

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Area of Science:

Socio-economic studies
Development finance
Financial geography

Background:

Global financial crisis and development financing crunch.
Remittances linked to financial inclusion agenda: 'financialization of remittances' (FOR).
Need for analysis beyond the Global North.

Purpose of the Study:

Analyze socio-culturally specific histories and everyday manifestations of FOR.
Propose shifts in financialization analysis: beyond Global North, focus on failures/contradictions.
Contribute to financialization research by exposing colonial legacies, power relations, and reconfigured social dynamics.

Main Methods:

Transdisciplinary conversation using feminist, postcolonial, poststructural, and political geography theories.
Case studies across the Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Ghana, Mexico, Nepal, and Senegal.
Relational analysis of financialization, considering economic, political, and socio-cultural dimensions.

Main Results:

Exposes colonial legacies within remittances and their financialization.
Challenges the neutrality of FOR by revealing caste, gender, and racialized power dynamics.
Documents complexities, failures, and contestations of financialization processes.
Demonstrates how FOR reconfigures authorities, citizenship, and social dynamics.

Conclusions:

Financialization of remittances is shaped by colonial legacies and power relations.
FOR processes are complex, contradictory, and contested, not universally neutral.
Relational understandings of financialization are needed, transcending the North-South divide.