Migrating out of Poverty - Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Who Migrates? Tracking Gendered Access to Migration Within Households "In Flux" Across Time
(Taylor & Francis - Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 2017-08-25)In Indonesia, traditional gender ideals tend to depict men as legitimate migrants while women who move are deemed "out of place." This male migrant-as-breadwinner household arrangement has been complicated in the past 30 ... -
Cultural Mediation Through Vernacularization: Framing Rights Claims Through the Day-Off Campaign for Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore
(Wiley - International Migration, 2017-03-21)Scholarship on civil society in Singapore has tended to emphasize the structural and institutional constraints on civil society space. Conversely, little attention is paid to the broader cultural and discursive realms in ... -
Debt, Precarity and Gender: Male and Female Temporary Labour Migrants in Singapore
(Taylor & Francis - JEMS, 2016-08-29)As one of Asia's key hubs for transient workers, Singapore's migration regime creates particularly gendered streams of labour, especially among lower skilled occupations, as is apparent in two key sectors - domestic work ... -
Drivers of Migration Policy Reform: The Day Off Policy for Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore
(Sage - Global Social Policy, 2016-11-29)While there has been much debate on Singapore's migration policies, a 'black box' continues to surround policymaking decisions. This article examines the dynamics of migration policy reforms in Singapore, using the case ... -
Renegotiating Migration Experiences: Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore and Use of Information Communication Technologies
(Sage - New Media & Society, 2016-06-27)This article considers the ways in which information communication technologies (ICTs) are embedded in foreign domestic workers' migration experiences in Singapore. Due to Singapore's stringent migration regime, whereby ... -
Of Silent Maids, Skilled Gardeners and Careful Madams: Gendered Dynamics and Strategies of Migrant Domestic Workers in Accra, Ghana
(Springer Nature, 2016-05-24)Recent studies indicate that many migrants are engaged mainly in the informal sector in low-paid, short-term, and insecure occupations in cities. Using a qualitative research approach, this paper examines the gendered ... -
Labour Migration to the Construction Sector in India and its Impact on Rural Poverty
(Sage - Indian Journal of Human Development, 2016-07-14)The present article studies the impact of migration to the construction sector on rural poverty in India based on field survey. The survey has been carried out in two phases, the first phase involving the survey of ... -
Indonesian Domestic Workers and the (Un)making of Transnational Livelihoods and Provisional Futures
(Taylor & Francis - Social & Cultural Geography, 2016-05-17)Doreen Massey (2005. For Space. London: Sage.) argued that space and time should not be reduced to a bounded locality of the 'here and now' and instead proposed re-imagining 'space as simultaneity of stories-so-far'. We ... -
Towards Contextualised, Disaggregated and Intersectional Understandings of Migration in India
(Taylor & Francis - Asian Population Studies, 2016-06-03)New patterns of mobility are continuously shaping and being shaped by macro processes of liberalisation and capitalism on the one hand and local processes embedded in culture, class, ethnicity and race on the other hand. ... -
Women Moving Within Borders: Gender and Internal Migration Dynamics in Ghana
(Ghana Journal of Geography, 2015)Internal migration is an inherent part of the processes of development and structural transformation in any region. In Africa, while the focus is often on international migration, internal migration is far more significant ... -
Social Networks, Migration Trajectories and Livelihood Strategies of Migrant Domestic and Construction Workers in Accra, Ghana
(Sage - Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2016-03-17)Recent studies indicate that poor migrants are more likely to depend on social capital among other resources for livelihoods in host communities. Relying on insights from the social networks theory and using qualitative ... -
The Life Struggles and Successes of the Migrant Construction Worker in Accra, Ghana
(Ghana Journal of Geography, 2015)Globally, the construction sector employs several millions of migrants and is a major entry point for rural-urban migrants into the urban labour force. Its role in sustaining livelihoods both at origin and destination is ... -
Temporalites, savoir-faire et modes d'action des enfants travailleurs migrants au sein de la parente elargie en Afrique de l'Ouest
(Taylor & Francis - Canadian Journal of African Studies, 2015-05-08)This article focuses on migrant children in West Africa in contexts where independent migrations during childhood constitute the norm rather than the exception. The article examines how the relative age and gender of a ... -
South-South Migration for Domestic Work and Poverty
(Wiley - Geography Compass, 2015-04-15)Migration for domestic work has become the subject of intense debate among international human rights organisations and policy makers concerned with the welfare of workers who are predominantly women from poor and historically ... -
Climate-Related Migration in Rural Bangladesh: a Behavioural Model
(Springer - Population and Environment, 2014-02-15)Research into the climate change and migration nexus has often focussed solely on how people move in response to the impacts of variability and change in climate. This notion often ignores the nature of migration as a tried ... -
Upwards' or 'Sideways' Cosmopolitanism? Talent/Labour/Marriage Migrations in the Globalising City-State of Singapore
(Oxford - Migration Studies, 2013-02-22)In many globalising cities across Asia, migration is now viewed as a key measure to tackle labour shortages, population ageing, and economic competitiveness. Singapore presents an example of a city-state that has become ... -
Planning and Participation in Cities that Move: Identifying Obstacles to Municipal Mobility Management
(Wiley - Public Administration and Development, 2013-02-25)The dual processes of rapidly transforming cities and administrative decentralisation demands that local government address human mobility as a means of countering urban poverty. Despite this imperative, local authorities ... -
Prospects for Free Movement in the East African Community
(Berghahn - Regions and Cohesion, 2013-12-01)This article traces the evolution of regional integration in East Africa, discussing its nature, scope, triumphs, and challenges. It reviews the Protocol on the Establishment of the East African Community Common Market ... -
Changing Local Government Responses to Migration in South Africa
(DIE ERDE - Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 2012-11-30)Constitutionally empowered to be a leading force for development, provincial and municipal authorities have been wary of addressing population movements or seeing them as fundamentally tied to socio-economic development. ...