ABSTRACT
While the previous chapter located and reviewed the conceptual, analytical, and empirical contributions of existing research on remittances, financial inclusion, and financialisation, this chapter sheds light on some of its limitations. These revolve around the risks of overestimating the power of the remittance-financial inclusion agenda while simultaneously overlooking its inherently fragile and contingent characteristics. As a response, the chapter sets out the geographies of remittance marketisation as an analytical framework and demonstrates how such an approach allows for a more empirically grounded and unitary account of the discursive, financial, political, legal, social, statistical, technological, and behavioural developments around remittances in recent years. More specifically, the chapter explores how this approach is better suited to exploring, first, the ways in which remittance markets are constructed, stabilised, expanded, and contested and, second, how processes of ‘nudges’ and financial subjectivation unfold in practice.
