In 2017, we wrote an article that highlighted the impact of remittances on the capacity of rural households to respond to economic and environmental challenges. Based on a study of rural migrant households in Bangladesh, our findings suggest that remittances enhance the social resilience of households, or the ability to respond to different challenges. Our analysis shows that monetary remittances boost migrant households’ ability to build other forms of economic, human, and cultural capital, which in turn contribute to the household social resilience in response to challenges. This involves different investment strategies that are shaped by gender roles in the household, and can relate to specific forms of capital, such as access to land for agricultural production or housing construction, or education which adds to human capital. Given the current challenge of COVID-19, we reflect on the pandemic’s impact on remittances and rural migrant households in Bangladesh…