Title
The Circulation of Monies and Ideas between Paris, Dakar, and New York: The Impact of Remittances on Corruption
Author(s)
Ilka Vari-Lavoisier Ilka Vari-Lavoisier (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Abstract
How do flows of monies and flows of ideas interrelate as they circulate between New York, Dakar, and Paris? This paper shows how the conceptual framework of economic sociology can encompass and further conclusions produced by the scholarship investigating the migration-development nexus. A theoretical approach to economic sociology shows that migrants’ financial remittances perform a transnational relational work critical to the circulation of ideas between continents. Bringing together studies of economic remittances and social remittances, this project explores the channels through which migrants’ transfers can influence corruption. Two transnational datasets collected in France, Senegal, and the United States (in 2011-2012) are combined to propose a structural model (SEM). This analysis of the channels through which migrants’ transfers impact the socio-political environment of their homeland contributes to a better understanding of the interrelations between tangible and intangible resources.
Creation Date
2014-09
Section URL ID
Paper Number
15-01g
URL
http://cmd.princeton.edu/sites/cmd/files/working-papers/2014-conference-from-econ/Ilka-Vari-Lavoisier.pdf
File Function
Jel
F24
Keyword(s)
remittances, Segenal, France
Suppress
false
Series
7