402
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Impacts of social remittances on economic activities: labour migration from a village of Bangladesh to Malaysia

Pages 273-290 | Received 13 Feb 2020, Accepted 29 Mar 2020, Published online: 30 Apr 2020

References

  • Abdul-Aziz, A. R. (2001). Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia’s construction sector. Asia Pacific Population Journal, 16(1), 3–22. https://doi.org/10.18356/e085943a-en
  • Abubakar, S. Y. (2002). Migrant labour in Malaysia: impact and implications of the Asian financial crisis. East Asian Development Network Research Paper 1-5, Bangkok, Thailand. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.455.2467&rep=rep1&type=pdf>.
  • Aggrawal, R., Demirguc-Kunt, A., & Peria, M. S. M. (2006). Do remittances promote financial development?World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3957, World Bank, Washington DC. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTTOPCONF3/Resources/Do_Workers_Remittances_Promote_Financial_Development.pdf
  • Ammassari, S., & Black, R. (2001). Harnessing the potential of migration and return to promote development: Applying concepts to West Africa. International Organization for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland. file:///C:/Users/User%201/Downloads/Harnessing_the_Potential_of_Migration_an.pdf
  • Amnesty International. (2010). Trapped: the exploitation of migrant workers in Malaysia. Amnesty International Publications, Peter Benson House, London. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA28/002/2010/en/114eba25-6af5-4975-9ea3-02c22f6bdc5a/asa280022010en.pdf>
  • Arifin, B. (2012). Critical analysis of domestic worker condition in Malaysia and Singapore: ameliorated economic condition vs. gateway to modern slavery or servitude (master thesis), malmo university, Hogshola, Sweden). https://muep.mau.se/bitstream/handle/2043/13842/Critical%20Analysis%20of%20Domestic%20Worker%20Condition%20in%20Malaysia%20and%20Singapore.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
  • Aycan, Z. (1997). Expatriate adjustment as a multifaceted phenomenon: Individual and organizational level predictors. The International Journal of Human ResourceManagement, 8(4), 434–456. https://doi.org/10.1080/095851997341540
  • World Bank. (2019). Leveraging economic migration for development: A briefing for the World Bank Board. World Bank, Washington DC. https://www.knomad.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/World%20Bank%20Board%20Briefing%20Paper-LEVERAGING%20ECONOMIC%20MIGRATION%20FOR%20DEVELOPMENT_0.pdf
  • Barai, M. K. (2012). Development Dynamics of Remittances in Bangladesh. SAGE Open, 2(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244012439073
  • Bilgili, O. (2014). Migrants’ Multi-Sited Social Lives Interactions between Sociocultural Integration and Homeland Engagement. Comparative Migration Studies, 2(3), 283–304. https://doi.org/10.5117/CMS2014.3.BILG
  • Black, J. S., & Stephens, G. K. (1989). The influence of the spouse on American expatriate adjustment in Pacific Rim overseas assignments. Journal of Management, l(15), 529–544. https://doi.org/10.1177/014920638901500403
  • Boccagni, P., & Decimo, F. (2013). Mapping social remittances. Migration Letters, 10(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v10i1.106
  • Bureau of Manpower and Employment Training (BMET). (2019). Overseas employment and remittances (1976-2019). Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka. http://www.old.bmet.gov.bd/BMET/viewStatReport.action?reportnumber=34.
  • Chevannes, B., & Ricketts, H. (1997). Return migration and small business development in Jamaica. The Centre for Migration Studies Special Issues, 13(4), 161–195. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2050-411X.1996.tb00158.x
  • Chowdhury, M. B. (2011). Remittances flow and financial development in Bangladesh. Economic Modelling, 28(6), 2600–2608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2011.07.013
  • Clemens, M. (2010). ALabor mobility agenda for development. Center for Global Development, Washington DC. https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/1423717_file_Clemens_labor_mobility_FINAL_1.pdf
  • Dannecker, P. (2005). Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia: The construction of the ‘others’ in a multiethnic context. Asian Journal of Social Science, 33(2), 246–267. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568531054930820
  • Dannecker, P. (2009). Migrant visions of development: A gendered approach. Population, Space and Place, 15(2), 119–132. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.533
  • Devadason, E. S., & Meng, C. W. (2014). Policies and laws regulating migrant workers in Malaysia: Critical appraisal. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 44(1), 19–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2013.826420
  • Duda-Dziewierz, K. (1938). Wies malopolska a emigracja amerykanska. Studium wsi babica powiatu rzeszowskiego. Polski Instytut Socjologiczny Dzial Wydawnictw.
  • Elashmawi, F., & Harris, P. R. (1993). Multicultural management: New skills for global success. Gulf Publishing Co.
  • Faist, T. (2008). Migrants as transnational development agents: An inquiry into the newest roundof the migration–development nexus. Population, Space and Place, 14(1), 21–42. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.471
  • Farid, K. S., Mozumdar, L., Kabid, M. S., & Hossain, K. B. (2009). Trends in international migration and remittance flows: Case of Bangladesh. Journal of Bangladesh Agriculture University, 7(2), 387–394. https://doi.org/10.3329/jbau.v7i2.4751
  • Febres, M. S. (2009). Cultural remittances: Rethinking puerto rican migration, exile, and the connections between the global and the local. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4(3), 347–349. https://doi.org/10.1080/17442220903331720
  • Fitzgerald, D. (2000). Negotiating extra-territorial citizenship: Mexican migration and the transnational politics of community. La Jolla, CA: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/Lasa2001/FitzgeraldDavid.pdf
  • Flores, J. (2009). The diaspora strikes back: Caribbean latino tales of learning and turning. Routledge.
  • Froese, F. J., Peltokorp, V., & Ko, K. A. (2012). The influence of intercultural communication on cross-cultural adjustment and work attitudes: Foreign workers in South Korea. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 36(3), 331-342. https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.09.005
  • Furnham, A., & &Bochner, S. (1986). Culture shock: Psychological reactions to unfamiliar environments. Methuen and Co. Ltd.
  • Ghazali, S. (2017). Everyday interaction patterns of the Indonesian female migrant workers with the local communities in Penang, Malaysia. Paper presented at the 8th International conference on 16-17 May, 2017, Indonesia.
  • Goldring, L. (2003). Re-thinking remittances: Social and political dimensions of individual and collective remittances. CERLAC Working Paper Series, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Carribean, York University. http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/Lasa2001/FitzgeraldDavid.pdf
  • Grabowska, I., Garapich, M. P., Jazwinska, E., & Radziwinowiczowna, A. R. (2017). Migrants as agents of change: Social remittances in an enlarged European Union. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Gubert, F., Lassourd, T., & Mesplé-Somps, S. (2010). Migrant Remittances, Poverty and Inequalities in Mali: An analysis drawing on three contractual scenarios. Revue économique, 61(6), 1023–1050. https://doi.org/10.3917/reco.616.1023
  • Hanifi, S. M. (2006). Material and Social Remittances to Afghanistan. In C. Wescott & J. M. Brinkerhoff (Eds.), Converting Migration Drains into Gains. Harnessing the Resources of Overseas Professionals (pp. 98–126). Asian Development Bank.
  • Hoang, L. A., & Yeoh, B. (2011). Breadwinning wives and ‘left-behind’ husbands: Men and masculinities in the vietnamese transnational family. Gender and Society,25(6), 717–739. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243211430636
  • Hossain, M. I, & Short, P. (2017). Migration processes and impacts, and emergence of a limited cyclical pattern of migration in rural bangladesh. In P. Short, M. Hossain & M. A. Khan (Eds.), Emerging Patterns, Opportunities and Risks (pp. 65-82). Routledge.
  • Hossain, M.I, Khan, M.A, & Short, P. (2013). “Migration of bangladeshi workers to Malaysia: Emerging lessons of economic and social costs and benefits at the migrant, migrant household and community levels”. In M. Hossain, T. Sarker & M. Mcintosh (Eds.), Sustainable Growth and Climate Change: Responsible Futures Matter (pp. 200-222). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
  • Hugo, G. (2012). Migration and development in low-income countries: A role for destination country policy. Migration and Development, 1(1), 24–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2012.709806
  • Hwok-Aun, L., & Leng, K. Y. 2018. Counting migrant workers in Malaysia: A needlessly persisting conundrum. ISEAS YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE, Singapore. https://www.iseas.edu.sg/images/pdf/[email protected]
  • International Organisation for Migration (IOM). (2003).Managing migration: Challenges and responses for people on the move. World Migration Report 2003, International Organisation for Migration, Geneva, Swizterland. <http://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/wmr_2003_1.pdf>
  • International Organisation for Migration (IOM). (2004). Costs and benefits of international migration. World Migration Report 2005, International Organisation for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland. <http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=37&products_id=176
  • International Organisation for Migration (IOM). (2018). Global migration indicators 2018. Global Migration Data Analysis Centre, International Organisation for Migration, Berlin, germany. https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/global_migration_indicators_2018.pdf.
  • International Organisation for Migration (IOM). (2019). World Migration Report 2020. International Organisation for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland. https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/wmr_2020.pdf.
  • Kapur, D. (2001). Diasporas and technology transfer. Journal of Human Development, 2(2), 265–287. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649880120067284
  • Karim, A. H. M. Z., Bakar, M. I. H., & Abdullah, M. A. I. (1999). Foreign workers in Malaysia: Issues and Implications. Kuala Lumpur: Utusan Publication and Distributors. <https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003351395>
  • Kassim, A. (1998, June 29-3 July). Improving the Position of Immigrants and Foreign Residents in Receiving Countries: Social and Cultural Issues. Paper presented at the Technical Symposium on International Migration and Development (UN).
  • Krzywicki, L. (1891, April 25). “Sachsengängerei.” Prawda, A Daily Newspaper, Slovakia.
  • Kusunose, Y., & Rignall, K. (2018). The long-term development impacts of international migration remittances for sending households: Evidence from morocco. Migration and Development, 7(3), 412–434. https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2018.1475383
  • Lacroix, T., Levitt, P., & Vari-Lavoisier, I. (2016). Social remittances and the changing transnational political landscape. Comparative Migration Studies, 16(4), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0032-0
  • Levitt, P. (1996). Social remittances: A conceptual tool for understanding migration and development. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?
  • Levitt, P. (1998). Social remittances: Migration driven local-level forms of cultural diffusion. International Migration Review, 32(4), 926–948. https://doi.org/10.1177/019791839803200404.
  • Levitt, P. (2001). The transnational villagers. University of California Press.
  • Mata-Codesal, D. (2012). Material and Social Remittances in Highland Ecuador. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation], University of Sussex. Retrieved from http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7614/1/Mata-Codesal%2C_Diana.pdf
  • Mazzucato, V. (2010). Reverse remittances in the migration-development nexus: Two-way flows between ghana and the Netherlands. Population, Space and Place, 17(5), 454–468. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.646
  • Moreno, R. M. 2016. Immigrant labor: Can it help Malaysia’s economic development?. World Bank Blogs. https://blogs.worldbank.org/eastasiapacific/immigrant-labor-can-it-help-malaysia-s-economic-development
  • Muniandy, P., & Bonatti, V. (2014). Are migrants agents or instruments ofDevelopment? The case of ‘temporary’Migration in Malaysia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(11), 1836–1853. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2014.907738
  • Nichols, S. (2002, March 29). Another kind of remittance: Transfer of agricultural innovations by migrants to their communities of origin. Paper presented at the Second Colloquium on International Migration: Mexico-California, University of California.
  • Nowicka, M., & Serbedzija, V. (2016). Migration and Remittances in a Global Europe. In M. Nowicka & V. Serbedija (Eds.), Europe in Global Context (pp.1-20). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Oberg, K. (1960). Cultural shock: Adjustmentto new cultural environments. Missiology: An International Review, 7(4), 142–146.https://www.academia.edu/17206900/Cultural_ShocK_Adjustment_to_new_cultural_environment_-Kalervo_Oberg
  • Oommen, G. Z. (n.d.). Gulf migration, social remittances and religion: The Changing dynamics of Kerala christians. https://mea.gov.in/images/pdf/GulfMigrationSocialRemittancesandReligion.pdf.
  • Pillai, P. (1998). The impact of the economic crisis on migrant labor in Malaysia: Policy implications. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 7(2–3), 255–278. https://doi.org/10.1177/011719689800700207
  • Raghuram, P. (2009). Which migration, what development? Unsettling the edifice of migration and development. Population, Space and Place, 15(2), 103–117. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.536
  • Rahman, M. M., Arif, M. T., Safi, R., Tambi, Z., Akoi, C., Jantan, Z., Halim, S. A., & Hafiz, A. (2019). Cultural adaptation by Bangladeshi migrant workers in Sarawak, Malaysia: An empirical study. Indonesian Journal of Cultural and Community Development, 4, 1–9.https://journal.umsida.ac.id/index.php/ijccd/view/91/162
  • Rahman, M. M., & Fee, L. K. (2012). Towards a sociology of migrant remittances in Asia: Conceptual and methodological challenges. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38(4), 689–706. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2012.659129
  • Ratha, D., Mohapatra, S., & Scheja, E. (2011). Impact of migration on economic and social development: A Review of evidence and emerging issues. Policy Research Working Paper 5558, World Bank, Washington DC. file:///C:/Users/User%201/Downloads/SSRN-id1759149.pdf
  • Karim, A. H. M. Z., Rokis, R. & Basir, N. (2017). Roles and Social Adaptability of Bangladeshi Migrant Workers in Commercialised Farming of Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. European Journal of Social Science, 55(3),375-383. https://www.europeanjournalofsocialsciences.com/issues/PDF/EJSS_55_3_10.pdf
  • Reitz, J., Curtis, J., & Elrick, J. (2014). Immigrant skill utilization: Trends and policy issues. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 15(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0265-1
  • Rudnick, A. (1996). Foreign labour in Malaysian manufacturing: Bangladeshi Workers in the textile industry. INSAN, Malaysia.<https://books.google.com.bd/books/about/Foreign_labour_in_Malaysian_manufacturin.html?id=MlTtAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y>
  • Rudnick, A. (2009). Working gendered Boundaries: Temporary migration experiences of Bangladeshi women in the Malaysian export industry from a multi-sited perspective. Amsterdam University Press.
  • Sarker, M., & Islam, S. (2018). Impacts of international migration on socio-economic development in Bangladesh. European Review of Applied Sociology, 11(16), 27–35. https://doi.org/10.1515/eras-2018-0003
  • Siddiqui, T. &., & Abrar, C. R. (2003). Migrant worker remittances and micro-finance in Bangladesh. Working Paper No. 38, Social Finance Programme, International Labour Office. <http://ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—edemp/documents/publication/wcms_117970.pdf>
  • Sikder, M. J. U., & Ballis, P. H. (2013). Remittances and life chances: A study of migrant households in rural Bangladesh. Migration and Development, 2(2), 261–285. https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2013.814322
  • Sikder, M. J. U., & Higgins, V. (2017). Remittances and social resilience of migrant households in rural Bangladesh. Migration and Development, 6(2), 253–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2016.1142752
  • Spengler, J. (1970). Notes on the international transmission of economic ideas. The History of Political Economy, 2(1), 133–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2-1-133
  • Sturge, G., Bilgili, O., & Siegel, M. (2016). Migrants’ capacity as actors of development: Do skills matter for economic and social remittances? Global Networks, 16(4),470–489. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12117
  • Suksomboon, P. (2008). Remittances and ‘social remittances’: Their impact on livelihoods of thai women in the Netherlands and non-migrants in Thailand. Gender, Technology and Development, 12(3), 461–482. https://doi.org/10.1177/097185240901200309
  • Thomas, W. I., & Znaniecki, F. (1918). The polish peasant in Europe and America: Monograph of an immigrant group. The University of Chicago Press.
  • Thompson, E. C. (2009). Mobile phones, communities and social networks among foreign workers in Singapore. Global Networks, 9(3), 359–380. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2009.00258.x
  • Tung, R. L. (1998). American expatriates abroad: From neophytes to cosmopolitans. Journal of World Business, 33(2), 125–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-9516(98)90002-5
  • Ullah, A. K. M. A. (2010). Rationalizing migration decisions: Labour migrants in East and South-East Asia. Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
  • Ullah, A. K. M. A. (2013). Theoretical rhetoric about migration networks: A case of a journey of Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia. International Migration, 51(3), 151–168. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2009.00579.x
  • Vadean, F. (2007). Skills and remittances: The case of Afghan, Egyptian and Serbian immigrants in Germany. Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany. www.ari.nus.edu.sg/wps/wps07_092.pdf
  • Vargas-Silva, C. (Ed.). (2013). Social remittances in the encyclopedia of global human migration. Ness, Immanuel. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • Wickramasekara, P. (2011). Labour migration in South Asia: A review of issues, policies and practices. International Paper No. 108, International Labour Organisation, Geneva. <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?Abstract_id=1913316>
  • World Bank. (2018). World migration report 2018. World Bank, Washington DC. https://www.iom.int/sites/default/files/country/docs/china/r5_world_migration_report_2018_en.pdf
  • Yusupova, G, & Ponatin, E. (2016). Social remittances in religion: muslim migrants in russia and transformation of islamic practices. Problems Of Post-communism,65, (3), 188–200. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2016.1224552

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.