Remittances and Financial Inclusion

This book comprehensively explores the messy and contested relationship between everyday practices of remittance sending and receiving, processes of market making, and operations of micro- and global finance.

Autorentext

Vincent Guermond is a Lecturer in the Department of Business and Society at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests are in the areas of the geographies of debt, finance and market making, climate adaptation, migration and development, and social reproduction. Vincent has published in leading academic journals in geography, development studies, and international political economy, including Progress in Human Geography, Antipode, Geoforum, Environment and Planning A, Review in International Political Economy, World Development, and Development and Change.

Inhalt

Introduction PART I: THEORISING REMITTANCES, FINANCIAL INCLUSION, AND MARKETS 1.The emergence of the remittances-financial inclusion nexus **2. Geographies of remittance marketisation: a framework PART II: THE MAKING OF REMITTANCE MARKETS IN SENEGAL AND GHANA 3. Remittance market making in Senegal 4. Remittance market making in Ghana PART III: CONTESTED MARKETISATION** 5. Everyday lived experiences of receiving remittances 6. Repertoires of contestation: reluctance, refusal, and dissent Conclusion