Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
Contemporary development theory is poorly equipped to understand remittance-based development occurring in transnational spaces that partially escape the control of the state. An extended case study of the Muridiyya, a Sufi brotherhood in Senegal, reveals how collective remittances from Mouride transmigrants become tools for community-level development when channeled through transnational religious associations. I argue that remittance-based development projects transform the political, economic, and social contexts in which they are embedded, including the relationship between the Muridiyya and the state. Development theory must be reconceptualized to account for how remittance-based development defies conventional understandings of the scales of economic and social activity.
Recommended Citation
Sheff, Rebecca F., "The Problem with Eating Money: Remittances and Development within Senegal's Muridiyya" (2009). Political Science Honors Projects. 18.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/poli_honors/18
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