ALT "Countries across the Global South are witnessing the emergence of a novel manner of state-society relations, which the authors have dubbed the “transnational social contract,” as remittances sent by diasporas step in to finance multiple functions that states historically provided. This situation is exemplified by the emergence of migration management institutions, which signify the centrality of migration in government policymaking, as well as the widening gap between migrants’ remittances and government spending on services such as health care and education in the origin countries."