Sending Money Home: A Diaspora Guide
The first time I understood what a remittance was, I was nine, standing in line with my mother at a storefront in East Los Angeles while she wired money to her mother in Jalisco.
- $14 billion
- Filipino OFWs Sending Money
- $685 billion
- How the Diaspora Is
- $120 billion
- The Indian Diaspora Sending
Browse the guides
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Filipino OFWs Sending Money Home | There is a word in the Philippines you do not hear about migrants anywhere else quite |
| How the Diaspora Is Going Digital | For most of the history of sending money home, the technology was a person. You handed |
| The Indian Diaspora Sending Money Home | No country on earth receives more money from its diaspora than India. That single fact — |
| The Mexican Diaspora Sending Money Home | My grandmother in Jalisco could tell you the exact day of the month my mother's money |
| The Nigerian Diaspora Sending Money Home | There is a Yoruba word that has quietly become the defining verb of a Nigerian generation: |
| The Vietnamese Diaspora Sending Money Home | Every corridor has an origin story, but few are as sharp as Vietnam's. The Vietnamese diaspora |
| Why Remittance Fees Hurt Families | There is a number that follows every remittance story around, and it deserves a story of |
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Diaspora Dispatch publishes plain-English explainers written by named contributors. Figures are labelled with their source and dated, and pages are revised when the underlying facts change.
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Who writes here
Kwame writes about identity and the shift to digital — how immigrant communities across Africa and Asia are changing the way they send money, from cash agents and hawala to wallets, apps, and stablecoins....
Sofia writes about the household economics of migration — who sends, what it pays for, and what it costs the family to keep the money flowing. Mexican-American, she grew up in a home that...