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Internal Remittances and Poverty: Further Evidence from Africa and Asia
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2014-03-01)Despite the fact that the number of internal migrants globally is at least 740 million, nearly four times the number of international migrants, there is hardly any discussion on internal remittances and their potential to ... -
Social Polarisation and Migration to Johannesburg
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2013-11-01)The manufacturing sector – once a major source of urban employment and consisting of a large percentage of skilled and semi-skilled, middle-income jobs – has declined, while the service sector – comprising predominantly ... -
Financing Migration, Generating Remittancesand the Building of Livelihood Strategies: A Case Study of Indonesian Migrant Women as Domestic Workers in Singapore
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2013-11-01)In the context of growing female labour migration in Southeast Asia, it has been argued that migration represents an important livelihood strategy forpoverty alleviationamongstmigrants and their families. Using the casestudy ... -
Rural-Urban and Urban-Rural Migration Flows as Indicators of Economic Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Do the Data Tell Us?
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2013-09-01)Migration flows can be sensitive indicators of the geography of economic opportunity and vitality. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) assumptions are too often made about the scale and direction of migration flows between rural ... -
The Impact of Migration on the Welfare of Households Left Behind in Rural Ghana: A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-11-01)Using panel data collected in 2015 and 2018, this paper employs econometric techniques to evaluate the impact of migration on the welfare of households left behind in rural Ghana. We find that poverty is an important driver ... -
Good for Parents but Bad for Wives: Migration as a Contested Model of Success in Contemporary Ghana
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-11-01)This paper contributes to the literature that critiques the New Economics of Labour Migrations’ perspectives on the motivations for migration. It uses both a gender and generation lens to explore the multiple meanings that ... -
‘Bringing Time’ into Migration and Critical Border Studies: Theoretical and Methodological Implications for African Research
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-10-01)This paper brings together insights from scholarship on time, migration and critical border studies to propose a research thematic framework for a temporal approach on African migration. Through a case study of Zimbabwe-South ... -
Changing Patterns of Migration and Remittances in Ethiopia 2014-2018
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-09-01)This paper reports on the changing patterns of migration and remittances in Ethiopia using a bespoke longitudinal survey of 1200 rural households. We shed light on changes in migration destinations, revealing the large ... -
Changing Patterns of Migration and Remittances: A Case Study of Rural Ghana
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-09-01)Using a migration dataset on Ghana, this paper examines the changes in migration and remittance patterns of households interviewed in 2015 and 2018. Our findings indicate that migration statuses of a majority of household ... -
My Way? The Circumstances and Intermediaries that Influence the Migration Decision-Making of Female Zimbabwean Domestic Workers in Johannesburg
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-08-01)The migration of migrant domestic workers, who are mainly female, from Zimbabwe to South Africa is shaped by a number of agents and processes, even though the women exercise substantial individualism and agency in their ... -
Brokers, Migrants and the State: Berri Kefach “Door Openers” in Ethiopian Clandestine Migration to South Africa
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-08-01)This paper examines the crucial role that migration brokers play in organizing and sustaining irregular migration from Ethiopia to South Africa. Brokers and smugglers assist migrants in circumventing layers of migration ... -
Zimbabwean Migrant Domestic Worker Activism in South Africa
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-01-01)There is a longstanding ‘mobilisation structure’ for domestic workers which begins from the view that African women in South Africa are oppressed in three ways: oppressed as blacks, oppressed as women, and oppressed as ... -
Encouraging ‘Returns’, Obstructing Departures and Constructing Causal Links: The New Creed of Euro-African Migration Management
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2018-06-01)This paper explores whether the policy level constitutes a new element in what Hernández-León coined as “the migration industry” in 2005. The paper unravels the impact of semantic and legal shifts at different scales over ... -
A Review of Internal and Regional: Migration Policy in Southeast Asia
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2013-09-01)This working paper provides an overview of migration policy analysis in academic and policy (‘grey’) literature for Southeast Asia, as well as a brief outline of the current migration policy environment in each of the ... -
Drivers of Intra-Regional and Inter-Regional Migration in Africa: a Synthesis from the Migrating out of Poverty Surveys
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2018-05-01)This paper explores the drivers of African migration drawing on micro data from comparable household surveys of rural households conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe between 2013 and 2015, including a short longitudinal ... -
‘We Have the Research but Where is the Influence?’Constraints and Opportunities for Evidence-Based Policy Impact in South Africa
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2018-04-01)Research can generate evidence that can make a vital difference if utilised in decision-making, and policy or civil society practice. However, despite a considerable amount of optimism about research uptake in the Global ... -
Following in Their Footsteps: An Analysis of the Impact of Successive Migration on Rural Household Welfare in Ghana
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-12-01)In this paper, we explore repeated migration within a household and consequent welfare outcomes. Specifically, we use a household panel survey collected in 2013 and again in 2015 in rural areas of Ghana. We exploit the ... -
Emic Perspectives on Brokering International Migration for Construction from Bangladesh to Qatar
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-03-01)This paper presents an emic perspective on the drivers and outcomes of migration brokerage through a study of low-skilled migrant construction workers from Chapainawabganj – a district in the north-west of Bangladesh – ... -
MoVE (Methods: Visual: Explore) Examining the Use of Participatory Visual and Narrative Methods to Explore the Lived Experience of Migrants in Southern Africa
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-07-01)In this paper, we explore the opportunities – and challenges – associated with visual research methodologies. Drawing on the MoVE (methods: visual: explore) project that explores the lived experiences of migrant groups in ... -
Gendered Dynamics of Remitting and Remittance Use in Northern Ghana
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-03-01)Until recently, the relationship between gender and remittances has received little attention in academic and policy circles. The majority of earlier studies, which largely employed quantitative approaches, suggest clear, ...