Money Matters in Migration: Policy, Participation, and Citizenship

Author: Tesseltje de Lange; Willem Maas; Annette Schrauwen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009045605

Published In: March 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781316517505

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Migration, participation, and citizenship, are central political and social concerns, are deeply affected by money. The role of money - tangible, intangible, conceptual, and as a policy tool - is understudied, overlooked, and analytically underdeveloped. For sending and receiving societies, migrants, their families, employers, NGOs, or private institutions, money defines the border, inclusion or exclusion, opportunity structures, and equality or the lack thereof. Through the analytical lens of money, the chapters in this book expose hidden and sometimes contradictory policy objectives, unwanted consequences, and inconsistent regulatory structures. The authors from a range of fields provide multiple perspectives on how money shapes decisions from all actors in migration trajectories, from micro to macro level. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book draws on case studies from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. This comprehensive overview brings to light the deep global impacts money has on migration and citizenship.

1. Money matters in migration: a synthetic approach Tesseltje de Lange, Willem Maas, and Annette Schrauwen

Part I. Migration:

2. Money matters: The role of funding in migration governance

Elaine Lebon-McGregor and Nicholas R. Micinski

3. Digging a moat around fortress Europe: EU funding as an instrument of exclusion

Caterina Molinari

4. European funds for 'sub-Saharan' migrants in Morocco: caring or controlling?

Lorena Gazzotti

5. Cash rules everything: money and migration in the Colombian-Venezuelan borderlands

Charles Larratt-Smith

6. Recruitment fees, indebtedness and the impairment of Asian migrant workers' rights

Pedro de Sena