When:
Friday, November 1, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: 720 University Place, Second Floor, 720 University Place , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Group: Buffett Conversations & Book Talks
Category: Global & Civic Engagement
Join the Buffett Institute for a book talk on Friday, November 1 at 4:00 p.m. with Hasan Mahmud, author of Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home (Rutgers University Press, 2024).
Remittance as Belonging argues that migrants' remittances express their sense of belonging and connectedness to their country of origin. Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork with Bangladeshi migrants in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hasan Mahmud demonstrates that while migrants go abroad for various reasons, they travel essentially as members of their family and community and maintain their belonging to home through transnational practices including remittance sending. By conceptualizing remittance as an expression of migrants' belonging, the book presents detailed accounts of remittances' emergence, growth, decline and revival as a function of transformations in migrants' sense of belonging to home.
A reception will follow the in-person program, and the first 20 attendees will receive a copy of the book.
Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.
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