| dc.description.abstract | The inflow of migrant remittances has been an increasing source of financial support to recipients
in low and middle-income countries, often through informal channels. Remittances have been
viewed as beneficial to migrant families to assist with quality education, health, basic food needs,
and to establish developmental projects like building of residences for university students, and
hence creating employment. However, remittances provide more than economic and material
gains. This thesis brings into light social aspects of remittances such as networking, moral
obligations, prestige, promoting and maintaining kinship ties, and altruism, with a critical look at
the development concept of wellbeing. Specifically drawing from a case study of Cameroonian
migrants living in Cape Town, South Africa and relatives and remittance recipients in the Buea
municipality in the South West region of Cameroon, this study has assessed the migrationdevelopment
nexus with an emphasis on the social impact of remittances. | en_US |
