Migrating out of Poverty - Working Papers: Recent submissions
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Brokerage in Migrant Domestic Work in Ghana: Complex Social Relations and Mixed Outcomes
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-01-01)Rural–urban migration from the poorer regions of Ghana to the south is an important part of the livelihood portfolio of poor families. In the urban areas of the south, domestic work – which is typically low-paid and insecure ... -
How Unpopular Policies are Made: Policy Making for Migrant Women in South Africa, Bangladesh and Singapore
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-10-01)In this paper we address the question: how and why does policy get made in post-colonial In this paper we address the question: how and why does policy get made in post-colonial contexts? Based on three case studies of ... -
Translocal Subjectivities Within Households ‘In Flux’ in Indonesia
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-10-01)This paper draws upon fieldwork conducted in the migrant-sending area of Ponorogo, Indonesia between 2014 and 2016. It incorporates the concept of ‘global householding’ (Douglass 2014, 314) while also using a translocal ... -
Gains and Losses from Internal Migration: Evidence from Migrant-Sending Households in Ghana
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-09-01)Migration is a common strategy adopted to escape poverty and improve living standards, but it is not without risks and there are no guarantees of success. We analyse the impact of migration on the welfare of migrant-sending ... -
Of Local Places and Local People: Understanding Migration in Peripheral Capitalist Outposts
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-09-01)This paper explores the ways in which migration and social change intermesh. It focuses on internal migration from Northern to Southern Ghana and through scrutinising changes to livelihoods in Northern Ghana in the long ... -
Internal Migration, Remittances and Poverty: Evidence from Ghana and India
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2012-09-01)Drawing on data from population censuses and recent household surveys for India and Ghana, this paper demonstrates the importance of internal migration in comparison to international migration, showing that internal migrants ... -
Gendered Practices of Remittances in Bangladesh: A Poststructuralist Perspective
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-09-01)This paper offers a gendered analysis of remittance behaviour in households that depend on overseas earnings. Applying a post-structuralist conceptualisation of gender as 'performativity' to a migrant community in Bangladesh, ... -
Does Migration Improve Living Standards of Migrant-Sending Households? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-09-01)This paper aims to evaluate the impact of migration on household welfare, in particular the consumption expenditure in Ethiopia, using cross-sectional data collected from 1,200 rural households from four different regions ... -
Choosing a Life: Remittances and Youth Aspirations in Bangladeshi Villages
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-09-01)Remittances are special forms of economic exchange which can be transformed into or invested in order to build other forms of tangible and intangible resources. The immediate spending of remittances in smoothing household ... -
Changing Policy: Lessons from the Trafficking in Persons Act (2013) in South Africa
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-09-01)Concern around human trafficking in South Africa started in the early 2000s, coinciding with the ratification of the Palermo Protocol and passing of the U.S.’s Trafficking Victim’s Protection Act, which mandates the ... -
Who’s Holding the Bomb? Debt-Financed Migration in Singapore’s Domestic Work Industry
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-08-01)Debt-financed migration in South-East Asia is often criticised as a model that yokes migrant domestic workers to employers with onerous salary deductions. However, more recent conceptualisations of debt-financed migration ... -
Public Policy Formulation: A Case Study of Domestic Workers in Bangladesh
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-07-01)On 21 December 2015, the Bangladesh government approved the Domestic Workers’ Protection and Welfare Policy (DWPWP) 2015, the adoption of which offers an interesting case study through which to understand how public policy ... -
The Dynamics of Policy Formulation and Implementation: A Case Study of Singapore’s Mandatory Weekly Day off Policy for Migrant Domestic Workers
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-05-01)Using the process-tracing methodology, this paper aims to outline the causal mechanisms that led to the formulation of the day off policy for migrant domestic workers in Singapore. Specifically, our analysis will focus on ... -
Migration and Socio-Economic Development in African Cities: The Dual Challenge to the Aerotropolis Project of South Africa’s Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-05-01)This paper engages with efforts by cities and municipalities across the developing world to find favourable positions within the global economy. While many aim to attract highly skilled talent, tourists and industry, few ... -
New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme: An Object Lesson in Policy Making – But for Whom?
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-01-01)Since 2007 New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Scheme has been a very successful temporary migration programme allowing Pacific island residents to work for a season in New Zealand. This paper explores the ... -
Moving to ‘Greener Pastures’? The Complex Relationship Between Internal Migration, Land Tenure and Poverty in Mid-Ghana
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-01-01)This working paper uses a multi-level approach to investigate the recent trend of semipermanent migration of tenant farmers from Northern Ghana to Brong Ahafo’s transition zone. Significant numbers of migrants have moved ... -
Human Mobility and Climate Change Adaptation Policy: A Review of Migration in National Adaptation Programmes of Actions (NAPAs)
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2012-03-01)Despite increasing awareness of the complex linkages between migration and climate change, there is limited analysis on how issues of human mobility are currently addressed in national climate change adaption strategies. ... -
Migration, Consumption Smoothing and Household Income: Evidence from Thailand
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-05-01)The main argument of this paper is that migration does not necessarily reduce informal risk sharing in the village. We model migration as a kind of storage technology with uncertain payments for a household. Theoretical ... -
Migration and Social Networks: Evidence from Bangladesh
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2015-09-01)Social networks play a key role in mitigating the risks of migration, with migrants typically making use of network and kinship capital in the decision of whether to migrate and to which destination. This paper adds to the ... -
Pragmatic Pathways: Critical Perspectives on Research Uptake in the Global South
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2015-09-01)One of social science’s core roles is to inform evidence-based policy making and policy interventions that produce pro-poor outcomes. This paper explores prominent debates on research uptake and policy making by scholars ...