But emigrant communities are not necessarily moribund. The men might be gone but, collectively and cumulatively, they send plenty of money back. Many home societies have a look of prosperity about them, with opulent modern house paid for with remittances by emigrants who have made good abroad (see box pp 28-29). The anthropologist James L. Watson, who studied migration to Britain from the rural New Territories of Hong Kong in the early 1970s, reports that in the emigrant communities there, these homes were called ‘sterling houses,’ after the British currency; and that in India they were known as ‘pakka [brick-built or good] houses.’ Nor is the money fuel for construction booms only, since many emigrants return or a visit or to retire, bringing their earnings with them to spend on goods and services at home. The community profits from their overseas members in other way too – in the charitable donations they make and the investment capital they provide. The issue of overseas Chinese remittances and investment has kept quite a few scholars busy and still confronts us with its tricky problems of definition and calculation (see Part IV)
But emigrant communities are not necessarily moribund. The men might be gone but, collectively and cumulatively, they send plenty of money back. Many home societies have a look of prosperity about them, with opulent modern house paid for with remittances by emigrants who have made good abroad (see box pp 28-29). The anthropologist James L. Watson, who studied migration to Britain from the rural New Territories of Hong Kong in the early 1970s, reports that in the emigrant communities there, these homes were called ‘sterling houses,’ after the British currency; and that in India they were known as ‘pakka [brick-built or good] houses.’ Nor is the money fuel for construction booms only, since many emigrants return or a visit or to retire, bringing their earnings with them to spend on goods and services at home. The community profits from their overseas members in other way too – in the charitable donations they make and the investment capital they provide. The issue of overseas Chinese remittances and investment has kept quite a few scholars busy and still confronts us with its tricky problems of definition and calculation (see Part IV)
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