Cross-border migration and remittances in a post-communist society: return flows of money and goods in the Korçë district, Albania
Συγγραφείς
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:
Remittances, Emigration, Non-migrant households, Poverty alleviation, Ανακούφιση της φτώχειας
Περίληψη
Since the early 1990s, at least 600,000 Albanians have availed themselves of
the option of temporarily or permanently emigrating. Although there is no
denying that the consequences of large-scale emigration and the related return
flow of money do have an impact on Albanian society, the question is,
how? Drawing on the returns to a survey conducted in a border district in
south-eastern Albania in late 2002, including a sample of 1,315 households,
this paper assesses some of the basic features of remittances – recipients,
channels, frequency, forms and use – in a society that has recently become a
source of substantial flows of out-migration.