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The main purposes for which remittance monies are used are education, emergencies and gifts, according to a survey by Western Union. Remitting money is invested with the promise of belonging, connection and happiness. Watch out for this new book on urban sociolinguistics due to be published by Routledge later this year:. Smakman, D. London: Routledge. From the blurb:. From Los Angeles to Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world.
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Her research expertise is in bilingual education, intercultural communication, language learning, and multilingualism in the context of migration and globalization. Money is a subtle but ubiquitous way language creates a sense of place and of national borders. This blog also makes me consider how numeracy and literacy can be conjoined for migrants or others arriving in a new country; learning to read the local currency and correctly engage in transactions are crucial, early steps in the process of working abroad.
After reading this post, it makes me think of another similar phenomenon happens in Hong Kong. More than , foreign domestic helpers are currently working in Hong Kong. The reason for them to work in Hong Kong is money and they can remit their remuneration back to their home country to sustain their families.
I met a foreign domestic helper from Indonesia and she told me the remuneration she had in Hong Kong could help her support her family, including sending her three children to the university and she owns two houses, with a groceries store in Indonesia. She mentioned to me that the wage she has in Hong Kong is somehow more than that of being a professional in Indonesia.
References Dulay, K. Language Learning, 67 2 , The purpose is to make shopping more convenient for the Chinese who are major population of the tourists in Sydney, they do not need to exchange for the Australian Dollars but simply tap their Union card to pay which is mostly used in China. To me, personally, I did not feel any kind of recognition of my language but a slogan to ask us to spend more on the remittance service.
It is stated in the article that remittances have been growing into big business industry. For a developing country like Nepal, it has played an important role in connecting people employed aboard to their family members back home.
It could be a marketing strategy for those remittance companies to publish their brochures in many languages but from the another point of view, it has helped minimizing the communication gap and also simplified the process in an understandable way. Proficiency in English language will always be an advantage wherever they are. Though English has been the universal language of communication in the modern world, there are very less people from developing countries who ever could afford the luxury of learning English.
So, those months are targeted by the remit companies. Remittance has emerged as a giant business, especially in nations which receive huge number of migrants. The amount of remittances by migrants to their home countries was an overwhelming total of USD billion.
It is no surprise that the advertisements of money transfers are multilingual even when the official language of the immigrant country is a specific one. By becoming multilingual, the remittance businesses are flourishing even more.
This was a really very interesting article to read. Before this article i never thought that money transfer business has some connection with the language. I never thought that this business needs to do anything for the promotion, but after reading this article i realise the fact that wit the help of publicity only they were able to spread their business world wide. Use of different language specially helps the people from the low literacy background as they can understand the terms and condition on their own rather being taking help from somebody else and being misguided or robbed in case of money transfers.
Advertising in different language helps to create awareness in the people of all the literacy level. The whole time when I was reading this blog, the present exodus of youth in Nepal was on my mind constantly. After reading it, I feel the overall situation of any developing country now is the same in terms of its overly ambitious youth, lack of opportunities and the foreign currency luring them as any sweet substance attracts ants.
Making money and sending it back home is fine. The larger question here is how difficult it is to earn that extra money they have promised their families back home. In the context of Nepal too, a huge number of Nepalese are leaving their country for the sake of good job opportunities and a better life.
And in return, the families of these immigrants get more and more foreign currency through remittances and enjoy comparatively better life than in the past. U Got A Problem What's Your Fantasy What's Your Fantasy Remix Longevity Invincible Face Off Baby Remix Girl You Know A Minute To Pray Never Do What You Want Smile Ft. And Yo Make Your Peace Recognize I See A Man Die My Block Dirty Dying With Your Boots On Guess Who's Back Ft.
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