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Global Justice and the Remittances Challenge: Confronting the €1 trillion “gap” in the literature

Descripción del proyecto

Estudio interdisciplinar de las remesas y la justicia mundial

En la economía mundial de las remesas participan mil millones de personas (doscientos millones de emisores y ochocientos millones de receptores). Supera la ingente cifra del billón de euros anuales, la cual supera con creces a la ayuda oficial para los países en desarrollo. Las remesas son salvavidas para los receptores. En el proyecto JUSTREMIT, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, se investigará por qué no se incluyen las remesas en los debates sobre justicia mundial liberal. En primer lugar, se evaluará la teoría de justicia mundial contemporánea desde la perspectiva de las remesas y la actuación de los pobres del mundo. Para arrojar luz sobre las prácticas éticas, culturales y religiosas que subyacen a las remesas, en el proyecto se llevará a cabo un estudio etnográfico de la relación remitente-receptor. Con los resultados, en el proyecto se teorizará sobre la justicia mundial de una nueva forma.

Objetivo

Remittances are the single most important source of global relief for the world’s poor, exceeding €1 trillion annually. Remittances outstrip Official Development Assistance by a factor of four and, in 2018, surpassed Foreign Direct Investment for the first time. 1 billion people are directly involved in the remittances economy, including 200 million senders and 800 million receivers. The benefits of remittances for receivers and their communities are broad and deep. Remittances support basic nutritional needs, housing, healthcare, and other critical daily expenses. Often these subsidies are lifelines without which receivers would be destitute. Remittances also improve childhood educational attainment levels, support local and state development and democracy, and serve as insurance against natural and political disasters. One would expect that GJ theory would be analytically able to incorporate remittances and normatively keen to explore the vast potentials for real-world injustice alleviation inherent to them. However, that is not the case. Just the opposite. Liberal GJ theory usually ignores remittances or frames them as harmful, and denies—sometimes denigrates—the agency of remitters. To sloganize: 1 billion people and €1 trillion are missing from the GJ debates. Worse, liberal GJ theorists endorse policies that could reduce remittances and increase harm. What is called GJ is often experienced by the world’s poorest as manifest injustice. JUSTREMIT investigates the paradigmatic constraints which make this injustice inevitable and invisible to liberal GJ theory. Then, using both theoretical and ethnographic studies, it constructs an alternative paradigm that rectifies that injustice by putting remittances and the agency of the global poor at the centre of the new paradigm. JUSTREMIT does not simply contribute to GJ theorization, it challenges and reconstructs its foundation while introducing new empirical modes of investigation and opening new policy horizons.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

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Régimen de financiación

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Institución de acogida

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 499 920,00
Dirección
RAPENBURG 70
2311 EZ Leiden
Países Bajos

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Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 1 499 920,00

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