Likewise, women gain financial independence and increased decision-making power when they emigrate (Peleah, 2007). Specifically, social remittance exchanges occur when migrants return to live in or visit their communities of origin, when non-migrants visit migrants abroad, or through the exchange of e-mails, blog posts and telephone calls (Levitt, 1998). In this way, migrants carry new ideas, practices and narratives which influence the social institutions and norms of their origin countries.