Hearthholds of mobile money in western Kenya
Hearthholds of mobile money in western Kenya
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肯尼亚西部移动货币的立足点
DOI：
10.1002/sea2.12055
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
6.5
通讯作者：
N. Chawla
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文献类型：
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作者：
S. Kusimba;Yang Yang;N. Chawla
肯尼亚人使用移动的货币服务，通过移动的手机短信向朋友和亲戚转账。肯尼亚的M-Pesa是数字货币在金融包容性方面最成功的例子之一。本文使用社会网络分析和民族志信息，以检查的关系，并通过妇女在12个移动的资金转移网络的亲属，从2012年，2013年和2014年收集的实地数据得出。社交网络是建立在兄弟姐妹和父母，特别是母亲之间的互惠和紧密联系的基础上的。男子平等地参与社交网络，但更多地是作为兄弟和母亲的兄弟而不是父亲。移动的货币的母系纽带在妇女、她们的孩子和其他与她们有联系的人的家庭中流通价值（Ekejiuba 2005）。利用汇款，家庭谈判在家庭农业或工作、教育和移民方面的投资。汇款支持多样化的经济战略，灵活的亲属关系和家庭的流动性。电子货币礼物据说表达了母亲和兄弟姐妹之间的自然爱和关怀，而且往往是私人的和个人的。因此，壁炉的货币流通避免了破坏父系团结和家庭自主的广泛共享的理想。
Kenyans use mobile money services to transfer money to friends and relatives via mobile phone text messaging. Kenya's M-Pesa is one of the most successful examples of digital money for financial inclusion. This article uses social network analysis and ethnographic information to examine ties to and through women in 12 mobile money transfer networks of kin, drawn from field data collected in 2012, 2013, and 2014. The social networks are based on reciprocal and dense ties among siblings and parents, especially mothers. Men participate equally in social networks, but as brothers and mother's brothers more often than as fathers. The matrilineal ties of mobile money circulate value within the hearthhold (Ekejiuba 2005) of women, their children, and others connected to them. Using remittances, families negotiate investments in household farming or work, education, and migration. Money sending supports the diverse economic strategies, flexible kinship ties, and mobility of hearthholds. Gifts of e-money are said to express a natural love and caring among mothers and siblings and are often private and personal. Consequently, the money circulations of the hearthhold avoid disrupting widely shared ideals of patrilineal solidarity and household autonomy.