The World Bank notes that officially recorded remittances reached $689 billion in 2018, including $529 billion to low- and middle-income countries. While these figures are mind-boggling and potentially render the act of migration as a clear decision, they do not communicate the social challenges that result for movers and nonmovers around migration and remitting. Our article is organized to better understand the complexities that surround remittances and the act of remitting. Based on research in Mexico and Tajikistan, we argue that while remittances are critical to household successes and can create a pathway to growth and economic success, they can also destabilize and undermine local practices as movers and nonmovers rethink life; engage in new kinds of labor; and reconsider their roles, responsibilities, and more. In the second part of our article, we argue that the dynamic effects of remittances are minimized and ignored, while their role in driving economic development is celebrated. Understanding remittance practices demands that we rethink academic boundaries and use ethnographic work to reconsider the centrality that development and economic growth often hold in our evaluations.

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重新思考汇款：移民和非移民捐赠的社会经济动态

世界银行指出，2018 年官方记录的汇款达到 6890 亿美元，其中向低收入和中等收入国家汇款 5290 亿美元。虽然这些数字令人难以置信，并可能使移民行为成为一个明确的决定，但它们并没有传达围绕移民和汇款给搬家和非搬家带来的社会挑战。我们的文章旨在更好地理解围绕汇款和汇款行为的复杂性。根据在墨西哥和塔吉克斯坦的研究，我们认为，虽然汇款对家庭成功至关重要，可以为增长和经济成功开辟道路，但随着搬迁者和非搬迁者重新思考生活，它们也可能破坏和破坏当地做法；从事新型劳动；并重新考虑他们的角色、职责等。在我们文章的第二部分，我们认为汇款的动态影响被最小化和忽略了，而它们在推动经济发展中的作用得到了赞扬。了解汇款实践要求我们重新思考学术界限，并使用民族志工作重新考虑发展和经济增长在我们的评估中经常占据的中心地位。