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How are things 鈥渄atafied?鈥� This blog post aims to answer this question by offering a critical reflection on a wide range of recent initiatives that attempt to 鈥渄atafy鈥� remittances, i.e. leverage migrants鈥� and recipients鈥� money as a means to facilitate access to digital financial products and services for individuals and households, with a specific focus on Ghana. A handful of scholars have started to critically assess the political economy of the 鈥渇inancialisation of remittances鈥�, calling into question an agenda that is animated not by the needs of migrant men and women but rather the political and financial concerns of a broad coalition of global and national actors relating to the socio-spatial expansion of markets (Datta, ; Cross, 聽; Kunz, ; Hudson, ; Zapata, ). Here, I want to focus on the yet neglected aspect of the construction of these remittance markets, rather than treating financialization as 鈥渁n explanation in and of itself鈥� (Fields, :119).

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