The sudden cut-off in funds to Hussein has forced her to be resourceful: "Now I am earning, I can feed my children and be more independent because I am no longer waiting for my brother to send me money through remittances and I have to do what I can to survive".
"I don't work and I do not have any other source of income, so I can't imagine any other way I would support my family if the remittance companies are closed," she said.
"Before the closure of remittance channels, my sons in the US and Qatar were sending me $200 every month to cover all my basic needs and with my 100-year-old mother who has many health issues, we are fully dependent on it," Osman said.
But my grandparents were alone in Santo Domingo, and those remittances, beyond material support, were a way, I suspect, for Mami to negotiate the absence, the distance, caused by our diaspora.
Many of those migrant nurses who participated in the qualitative interviews reported, in response to the question "What percentage of your income do you send?", that they were sending a considerable proportion of their salaries home in remittances: "I send almost half, half of my salary.
The thieves had kept it simple; they'd snatched a portable radio, some of my Dungeons & Dragons hardcovers, and, of course, Mami's remittances.
20It may be that the coefficient for female migrants is insignificant because few women in the sample report sending remittances, which possibly indicates a downward bias in my results.
My country, Bolivia, received more than 10% of its GDP in such remittances.
My second variable measuring migrants' preferences for the home country is based on remittances sent to family in the home country.
My uncle was a minister in an impoverished neighborhood in Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Princehe hope of remittances from relatives abroad, whereeven worse off than we were.
