Abstract

As migrants settle in the host community, they remit to their family members left behind. These remittances have become a major component of contemporary migration given their contribution towards poverty alleviation. However, the advent of COVID-19 impacted negatively on the flow of remittances. This chapter seeks to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on familial relations given that the remittance flow has been negatively affected. Although COVID-19 has resulted in reduced remittance transfers, this did not affect familial relations as highlighted in previous studies. Given that migrants had no control over their remittance behaviour, family members back home did not hold this failure to remit against them. Families were more concerned about the welfare of the migrants and how they could protect themselves from COVID-19. Regardless of the increased levels of poverty due to reduced remittances, non-migrant family members were not worried about their lack of finances.KeywordsFamily relationsSocial tiesSocial networksRemittancesCOVID-19

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