Not only Money, but the Integration and Loyalty of Migrants: Proposals for further Study of the Remittances sent from the Czech Republic
Abstract
Inspired by certain discrepancy between emphasis on financial and development impact of remittances on one side and some findings of my own survey on the other, I develop some proposals for further research of remittances sent from the Czech Republic. First, I discuss interconnection of remittances, migration and development.
Then, I show some topics related to the remittances, which I find relevant, important and close to the definition of situation of migrants themselves. In the form of proposals for further research I pose some questions which connect the topic of remittances with the inclusion of migrants.
I suggest concentrating on affiliation of migrants to host societies and simultaneously to their home societies and to the topic of building and maintaining of transnational relations of migrants. I try to warn against simplifying of phenomenon of remittances to purely financial matter.