TY - BOOK ID - 78496874 TI - "Les mbengis"--migration, gender, and family PY - 2017 SN - 995676258X 9789956762583 9789956762934 9956762938 PB - Baltimore, Maryland Bamenda, Cameroon [Oxford, England] Project Muse Langaa Research & Publishing CIG Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective DB - UniCat KW - Transnationalism. KW - Cameroonians KW - Emigrant remittances KW - Immigrant remittances KW - Remittances, Emigrant KW - Foreign exchange KW - Trans-nationalism KW - Transnational migration KW - International relations KW - Cameroon KW - Cameron KW - Camerun KW - Camerŵn KW - Federal Republic of Cameroon KW - Gweriniaeth Camerŵn KW - Jumhūrīyah al-Kāmīrūn KW - Kamailong KW - Kameroen KW - Kameron KW - Kameroun KW - Kamerun (Republic) KW - Kamerunská republika KW - Kāmīrūn KW - Republic of Cameroon KW - Republica de Camerún KW - Rèpublica du Cameron KW - Republiek van Kameroen KW - Republik Kameroun KW - Republik Kamerun KW - Republika Kamerun KW - République du Cameroun KW - République fédérale du Cameroun KW - République unie du Cameroun KW - Rėspublika Kamerun KW - State of Cameroon KW - United Republic of Cameroon KW - Рэспубліка Камерун KW - Република Камерун KW - Камерун (Republic) KW - جمهورية الكاميرون KW - كاميرون KW - 喀麦隆 KW - Cameroun KW - Kamerun KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Economic aspects. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78496874 AB - This book is about transnational migration (familiarly called "bushfalling") and remittance flows to Cameroon. With the current dire economic state, Cameroonians increasingly aspire to go abroad to make a living. Migrants achieve this through a collective (family) strategy and with the help of migration brokers. Relations between migrants and the family that stays in Cameroon can be characterized as follows: Families raise and educate their children to become adults. In return to giving their children the "gift of life", families expect reciprocity, best secured through economic success abroad and the sending of remittances by migrants. As families in Cameroon heavily contribute to the funding of migration trajectories, often by selling properties such as land or houses or borrowing money, they also expect a return on their investments. All that constitutes this study explores under the notion of the moral economy of transnational remittances. In this study, remittances are understood to be a composite of financial, material, and cultural flows--maintaining and transforming social and kinship ties. The book proposes also a large exploration of themes in relation to transnational migration: why and how Cameroonians migrate (the role of the operational family in terms of decision and funding; the role of migration brokers through the identification of "lines" and the provision of the necessary papers); the moral justification for migration; the ways social relations and customs are changed by status gained through migration; the ways people explain the failure of migration projects, the difficulties to stay abroad; the matrimonial strategies to go and stay abroad. This is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study that takes thinking on transnational migration informed by African strategies and experiences a step further. ER -