Publication

This paper examines remittance and diaspora policy formation in Tanzania as cargo cult. Both migration-development policy formation and cargo cults express the belief in the miraculous transformation of the local by the arrival of wealth emanating from the outside. The paper is based on ethnographic research in Dar es Salaam, and adds to our understanding of the relationship between remittances and the state, where the underlying cultural values, ideas and imaginaries expressed in remittances policies and thinking have been ignored.