• Podcasts produced within the summer school 

    According to the World Bank, in 2023 the officially recorded amount of remittances sent by migrants to their transnational families and local communities in the countries of origin was $656 billion (Ratha et al., 2024). This amount alone already indicates that remittances are a highly topical subject of migration research. However, in addition to the financial component, there are other non-material aspects, which can be referred to as social remittances, that are often overlooked in research, although they emerge in the everyday transnational practices of migrants and non-migrants.

    As part of the Summer School "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Transnational Migrant Remittances", master's students analysed remittances and their ambivalent impact on transnational families, local development and the (re)production of social inequalities in the form of two interview-podcasts with two Summer School lecturers, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer from the Ruhr-University Bochum and Dr. Lothar Smith from the Radboud University Nijmegen.

    Podcast: In Trap! Hospitals are DRAINING | Interview with Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Bauer | Hyeyun Jeong, Balakhanim Abbaszade, CC BY-ND 4.0

     

    Podcast: Dr. Lothar Smith on remittances and diaspora | Interview with Dr. Lothar Smith | Sarah Stone, Noah Blackburn, Aniela Tyborski, CC BY-ND 4.0: