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52 Int'l Migration Rev. 4 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/imgratv52 and id is 1 raw text is: IMR OSAGE Remittances for Collective Consumption and Social Status Compensation: Variations on Transnational Practices among Chinese International Migrants' Min Zhou Nanyang Technological University University of California, Los Angeles Xiangyi Li Sun Yat-sen University This paper focuses on a special type of remittances - monetary remit- tances sent by international migrants to their hometowns to build sym- bolic structures and cultural facilities for collective consumption. We develop an analytical framework to examine the motives behind migrants' remitting behavior and the mechanisms for realizing their remitting objectives based on a comparative study of two emigrant groups from China. We find that the sending of remittances for collec- tive consumption serves as a unique mechanism for social status compen- sation. Such behavior is not only affected by migrants' socioeconomic circumstances or government policies, but also by intersecting contextual and institutional factors at multiple levels transnationally. 'This study was supported by a faculty research grant (No. M4081238) from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair's fund, University of California, Los Angeles; the Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China; the 2013 Guangdong Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Youth Project, entitled The Study of Segmented Assimilation Patterns among Chinese Returned Migrants (No. GD13YHQO1), China; and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, SYSU, China. The original version of the article was presented at the international confer- ence on New Horizons of Diasporic Chinese Studies: Evolving Themes, Changing Frameworks, Future Directions, March 21-22, 2014, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The authors thank Alejandro Portes, Hasan Mahmud, Ning Wang, and IMR anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. c 2016 by the Center for Migration Studies of New York. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12268 4 IMR Volume 52 Number 1 (Spring 2018):4-42