In international migration, place and belonging present analytical problems to ethnographers who acknowledge the reality of global flows and at the same time are confronted with the complexity of immigrants' engagements in their societies of origin. This report describes the kind of relationships that African immigrants in Finland have with their relatives back in their original countries in Africa through the remittances they send them. A perspective of migrants' commitments builds on insights into global flows while providing a focus on place, human agency, meaning making, attachments, and life strategising. I develop this perspective with the aid of ethnography on migration and the social or kinship system in Africa, remittances and immigrants' lives in Finland.

immigrants Commitment Belonging remittances Finland Africa

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