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Parental Migration and the Educational Enrolment of Left-Behind Children: Evidence From Rural Ponorogo, Indonesia
(Taylor & Francis - Asian Population Studies, 2019-05-20)This paper examines the effects of parental migration on children's educational enrolment following the recent reforms in Indonesian educational policy. We find that, in general, parental migration has a positive impact ... -
The Globalisation of Trafficking and its Impact on the South African Counter-Trafficking Legislation
(Sage - Critical Social Policy, 2019-03-01)This article was prompted by emerging and highly politicised debates in South Africa over the role of 'foreign influence' in policy-making. Whilst popular debates on this issue are often over simplified, it nevertheless ... -
Skeptics' and 'Believers': Anti-Trafficking, Sex Work, and Migrant Rights Activism in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis - Gender & Development, 2019-03-13)Very little is known about activism, as it relates to the issue of migration in South Africa. Yet, migration policy and migration governance are increasingly becoming important to states like South Africa, which, 22 years ... -
Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility
(Sage - Open, 2019-02-14)Mobility and urbanization are shaping cities in Southern Africa. Peri-urban areas in particular are transforming at such a pace that municipalities are struggling to keep up with the changes. Local government is trying to ... -
Social Embeddedness of Human Smuggling in East Africa: Brokering Ethiopian Migration to Sudan
(Scalabrini - AHMR, 2018-05)This article discusses the migration processes and brokering practices that link Ethiopia and Sudan by taking into account the social, economic, political and cultural underpinnings of human smuggling in the ... -
Chutes-and-Ladders: the Migration Industry, Conditionality, and the Production of Precarity Among Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore
(Taylor & Francis - JEMS, 2018-11-07)In order to understand how precarity is created for and experienced by labour migrants, we apply the concept of conditionality - which proposes that a migrant worker's experience of precarity is contingent on a set of ... -
Please, Thank you and Sorry - Brokering Migration and Constructing Identities for Domestic Work in Ghana
(Taylor & Francis - JEMS, 2018-11-07)Drawing on interviews with migrant domestic workers and brokers in Accra-Tema, the capital city of Ghana, this paper throws light on the everyday practices of brokers in producing ideal workers for urban middle class and ... -
Producing Ideal Bangladeshi Migrants for Precarious Construction Work in Qatar
(Taylor & Francis - JEMS, 2018-11-07)The paper analyses the mediation of Bangladeshi construction worker migration to the Gulf and how multiple and unpredictable risks and opportunities are co-created by brokers, employers and the state. It examines how ... -
Following in Their Footsteps: an Analysis of the Impact of Successive Migration on Rural Household Welfare in Ghana
(Springer - IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2019-01-16)We explore patterns of successive migration within rural households in Ghana and the impact that these successive migrants have on household welfare outcomes. Specifically, we use a household panel survey collected in 2013 ... -
The Future of Mobility and Migration Within and from sub-Saharan Africa
(ESPAS - ORBIS, 2018-12-17)African migration - its drivers, dynamics, and consequences -increasingly features in global policy debates. Concerns vary widely, including everything from economic and human development, human rights, and human and state ... -
The Making and Unmaking of Precarious, Ideal Subjects - Migration Brokerage in the Global South
(Taylor & Francis - JEMS, 2018-11-07)The migration literature is often underpinned by the idea that migrants are either completely ‘free’ agents, individually choosing how best to achieve returns on their human capital and resources (Sjaastad 1962) or ‘agents ... -
Transnational Migration and the Involuntary Return of Undocumented Migrants Across the Cambodian-Thai Border
(Taylor & Francis - JEMS, 2019-01-04)Migration from Cambodia is a major livelihood strategy for rural communities, with most rural families having at least one, usually younger, member migrating in search of work. The pervasive nature of this phenomenon relates ... -
The Entanglements of Migration and Marriage: Negotiating Mobility Projects Among Young Indonesian Women from Migrant-Sending Villages
(Taylor & Francis - Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2018-11-11)In Indonesian society, both 'migration' and 'marriage' are important social markers that signify transition to adulthood. This paper examines how young Indonesian women reconcile labour migration aspirations with hegemonic ... -
How Unpopular Policies are Made: Examples from South Africa, Singapore, and Bangladesh
(Wiley - International Migration, 2018-09-12)In this article we contribute to the emerging knowledge on migration policy?making in two ways. Firstly, we address the relative lack of research on the gendered nature of migration policy?making. Secondly we contribute ... -
"The Lottery of My life": Migration Trajectories and the Production of Precarity Among Bangladeshi Migrant Workers in Singapore's Construction Industry
(Sage - Asia and Pacific Migration Journal, 2018-06-21)Within the scholarship on precarity, low-waged contract-based migrants are recognized as centrally implicated in precarious employment conditions at the bottom of neoliberal capitalist labor markets. Precarity as a socially ... -
Repoliticizing International Migration Narratives? Critical Reflections on the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development
(Taylor & Francis - Globalizations, 2018-03-12)This paper draws on Pecoud's international migration narratives (IMN) as an analytical framework to examine the Global Forum on Migration and Development's Civil Society Days (GFMD-CSD). We analyse the narratives both ... -
Bangladeshi Construction Workers and the Politics of (Im)mobility in Singapore
(Taylor & Francis - City, 2017-11-13)The most iconic image of the foreign construction worker in Singapore's popular imagination is a figure perilously secured by safety harnesses atop a half completed high-rise building. However, we argue that an understanding ... -
[Re]-presenting knowledge: The Coverage of Xenophobia Research in Selected South African Newspapers 2008-2013
(Delta State - Journal of Commuication and Media Research, 2018)Recurring xenophobic attacks on perceived foreign immigrants stand out as one of the major setbacks on South Africa'senvisaged 'rainbow' nation discourse. These attacks remain a topical issue in, ... -
Responsible Adults-in-the-Making: Intergenerational Impact of Parental Migration on Indonesian Young Women's Aspirational Capacity
(Elselvier - Geoforum, 2017-08-16)In the developing economies in Southeast Asia, labour migration is increasingly seen not simply to generate income to meet short-term livelihood needs but to secure the family's future, often by investing in children's ... -
Migration Governance and the Migration Industry in Asia: Moving Domestic Workers from Indonesia to Singapore
(Oxford - Internatonal Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2017-08-02)In the context of Asia, understanding migration governance needs to transcend statism to encompass the 'middle space' of migration. Unlike migration linked to settlement in liberal democratic states of the West, a large ...
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