COVID and reverse remittances: when families send money to support migrant relatives abroad

De Vries, Catherine, Doyle, David, Solaz, Hector and Tertytchnaya, Katerina (2021) COVID and reverse remittances: when families send money to support migrant relatives abroad. LSE Business Review (03 Jun 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Remittances, money migrants send to family members back home, tend to fall in times of crisis in migrant-receiving economies, but that has not been the case during the COVID pandemic. Catherine E. De Vries, David Doyle, Hector Solaz, and Katerina Tertytchnaya organised three focus groups in Kyrgyzstan, the third most remittance-dependent economy in the world, just behind Tonga and Lebanon. They found that the impact of the pandemic varied across migrant employment sectors, hospitality being the worst affected. Some family members report sending money from Kyrgyzstan to their migrant members in Russia.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2021 09:45
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 03:04
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111099

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