Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia Edited by Lan Anh Hoang Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia and Brenda S A Yeoh Professor of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore Contents List ofFigures and Tables vii Series Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgements xii Notes on Contributors xiii Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S A Yeoh Part I Remittances as Gendered Processes Transnational Remittances and Gendered Status Enhancement in Rural Bangladesh Nitya Rao 27 Remittances and Women's Agency: Managing Networks of Obligation among Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand Kyoko Kusakabe and Ruth Pearson 50 "Good" Sons and "Dutiful" Daughters: A Structural Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of the Migration and Remittance Behaviour of Northern Thai International Migrants Teresa Sobieszczyk "So They Remember Me When I'm Gone": Remittances, Fatherhood and Gender Relations of Filipino Migrant Men Steven McKay 82 111 Part II Remittances and Generational Dynamics of Change Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing and Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka Michele Ruth Gamburd 139 Differential Impacts of Migration on the Family Networks of Older People in Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill 165 v vi Contents Migration, Remittances and Social and Spatial Organisation of Rural Households in China C Cindy Fan Filipino Children and the Affective Economy of Saving and Being Saved: Remittances and Debts in Transnational Migrant Families Cheryll Alipio 194 227 Part III (Non-)Remittance and the Family in Crisis 10 Rethinking Remittances through Emotion: Filipina Migrant Labourers in Singapore and Transnational Families Undone Sallie Yea 257 11 Transnational Labour Migration, Debts and Family Economics in Vietnam Lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S A Yeoh 283 Index 311 ... Economy of Saving and Being Saved: Remittances and Debts in Transnational Migrant Families Cheryll Alipio 194 227 Part III (Non-)Remittance and the Family in Crisis 10 Rethinking Remittances through... Emotion: Filipina Migrant Labourers in Singapore and Transnational Families Undone Sallie Yea 257 11 Transnational Labour Migration, Debts and Family Economics in Vietnam Lan Anh Hoang and Brenda... Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill 165 v vi Contents Migration, Remittances and Social and Spatial Organisation of Rural Households in China C Cindy Fan Filipino Children and the Affective