Migrating out of Poverty - Policy Briefs: Recent submissions
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Rendering Services to Female Migrants by Labour Attaches of Bangladesh
(RMMRU, 2016-10)This policy brief highlights the problems faced by female migrants of Bangladesh. It also offers some innovative solutions to deal with these problems. Its contents are based on the recommendations made at a workshop ... -
Ghana - Migration Industry
(CMS, 2018-03)In recent times, the decision to migrate has moved from an individual level to a household level which is much complex due to the many social interactions within kinship networks and beyond. Middlemen and recruitment ... -
Ghana - Income and Remittances
(CMS, 2018-03)Within the past few decades, the role of migration in influencing development has garnered very interesting public debate at the local, national, regional and international level. This has been particularly apparent in ... -
Ghana - Gender and Generation: Understanding the Dynamics in Migrant Households
(CMS, 2018-03)As more women migrate within Ghana and to destinations abroad, there is an increasing attention to women’s rights and the abuses and discrimination faced by women on the move. However, less attention has been paid to how ... -
A Region Without Borders? Policy Frameworks for Regional Labour Migration Towards South Africa
(ACMS, 2013)Despite the long history of international migration in the region, Southern Africa lacks an official governance system to manage cross-border movement of persons and labour migration. Such migration ... -
Ethiopia - Income and Remittances - in Amharic
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Ethiopia - Gender and Generation - in Amharic
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Constraints and Opportunities for Evidence-Based Policy Impact on Unpopular Causes in South Africa
(ACMS, 2018-05)The South African academy has taken a principled stance against “alternative facts” or government sanctioned , unsubstantiated falsehoods. It is committed to addressing, topics and issues that affect the well-being of the ... -
Understanding Recruitment Agencies in Migrant Domestic Work in Ghana: Exploiters or Facilitators?
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-08)Rural-urban migration from the poorer regions of Northern Ghana to the south is an important part of the livelihood portfolios of poor women and girls in the country. In the last few decades domestic work has emerged as ... -
The Dual Challenge to the Aerotropolis Project of South Africa's Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
(ACMS, 2017-06)Ekurhuleni was established in 2000 and is also one of the three metropolitan municipalities in the Gauteng Province. Consisting of nine towns which are further divided into 17 townships and 119 recognised ... -
Migration, Marriage and Intra-household Dynamics: Lessons from Bangladesh, Ghana, and Indonesia
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-03)The Intra-Household Dynamics project is a comparative, qualitative study with case studies in Bangladesh, Ghana, and Indonesia. Relying on baseline household information collected in quantitative surveys in 2013-2014, the ... -
Strengthening Migration Data for Decisioin Making: Innovations in Design and Collection
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-03)Researchers and policy makers are fortunate that data on migration is rapidly improving in both quality and availability. In addition to improvements in measuring international migration with census data, more and more ... -
Poverty Reducing Potential of Labour Migration for Construction Work: Lessons from South Asia
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-01)Rural-urban migration for construction work is widely characterised as forced migration, offering few prospects for economic or social improvement in the lives of those who move for work. Within mainstream advocacy there ... -
The Business Model of Brokers in Bangladesh, Ghana, and Singapore: Lessons for Policy
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-04)A top priority for governments and human rights organisations aiming to end trafficking, forced labour, and modern slavery in migration is to “break the business model” of brokers who are believed to be the main channel ... -
Migration in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs)
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2012-03)Migration can play an important role in building adaptive capacity to climate change in low-income countries, for example by diversifying household income sources and leading to positive development impacts. However, ... -
“To Become Successful”: Impacts of Parent Migration on Youth’s Educational Opportunities and Aspirations in Ponorogo, Indonesia
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2017-01)Migration happens on a large scale in Indonesia. While migrants often say supporting their children’s education is a key motivation for migration, they face tremendous difficulties in saving up for the long-term due to ... -
Changing Policy: Lesssons from the Passing of the 2013 South African Trafficking in Persons Act
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-09)There is an expectation that researchers produce development knowledge with the aim of influencing policy and that decision makers, in turn, make evidence-informed choices. However, there is almost no literature documenting ... -
Thinking Twice: Myths about Migration
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016)Through exploring on-the-ground realities in Asia and Africa, we draw attention to fivebroad assumptions which underpin many civil society and policy-related conversationsabout how migration works and how migration should ... -
“The Current System is no Good”: The Challenges of Singapore’s Domestic Work Industry
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2016-09)Employment agents who match migrant domestic workers to Singaporean employers play a critical role in the way Singapore’s migration industry is currently structured: they set fees, create job matches, intervene when fissures ...