New Directions in South-South Migration

This open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of South-South migration. It explores crucial migration themes such as migrant integration in urban areas, migration and rural transformation, urban migration policy environment, migration corridors, and migrant precarity and survival, especially food security. It features contributions from eminent scholars in the Global South, namely, Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean and the Middle East. Chapters in the book present theoretical perspectives and practical case studies building on the results of detailed surveys, in-depth interviews, field observations and other materials. The book highlights new findings and research outputs from recent and ongoing collaborative projects between multiple researchers from the Global South and North. The book is intended for researchers, graduate students and teachers of geography, social policy, refugees and migration studies, history, international development and urban studies.

This is an open access book.

An open access book-- freely available online to all at no cost Addresses key thematic aspects of South-South migration Brings together the issues of migration, food security, development, and governance Provides detailed and insightful case studies of migration in the Global South

Auteur

Jonathan Crush is University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and Professor Extraordinary at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He founded the Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP), a consortium of Canadian and African researchers); the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN), a research, policy and capacity-building network of Canadian and African universities, NGOs and municipal governance network; and the Hungry Cities Partnership, an international network of cities and city-based partner organizations which focuses on the relationships between rapid urbanization, informality, inclusive growth and urban food systems in the Global South. His recent book contributions include the Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South (Elgar, 2020) and Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities (Routledge, 2018).

Abel Chikanda is an associate professor in the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University. He has held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellowship at Queen's University and was a project coordinator at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His main research interests include migration and development, refugee movement, food security, international development and the informal sector in Africa. His major book contributions include Diasporas, Development and Governance (Springer, 2016) and Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia, and Informality in South Africa (IDRC, 2015).

Sujata Ramachandran is the project manager for the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)-funded Remitting for Resilience/R2 Project of the MiFOOD Network and Hungry Cities Partnership at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow with this research network and continues to be involved in the SSHRC-funded MiFOOD (Migration and Food Security in the Global South) Project and the NFRF-IDRC-funded Women Feeding Cities Project. Sujata has extensive experience researching various aspects of migration in Canada, Southern Africa, and South Asia. Her research interests include migration and development, migrant integration, and migration governance. Her latest publications include a co-authored article on citizenship rights in India in Comparative Migration Studies and an invited commentary on migration and food security for International Migration. Sujata co-edits the MiFOOD Working Paper series.

Contenu
Introduction: South-South Migration: What is at Issue?.- Gender Trouble in the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees What Does it Mean for Women's Migration in the South?.- South-South, Migration-development Nexus: A Call for a Global Research Agenda in the Southern Africa Region.- Bilateral Labour Agreements as Tools for Managing Gendered Migration: A view from Sri Lanka.- Migration as Enabler of Inclusive Social Development: Focus on Food Security as an Indicator.- Can City Food Policy Address the Food Security Needs of Immigrant and Refugee Children? Lessons from Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.- Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: 'Assemblages of Exclusion' and the Food Security of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa.- Bangladeshi Construction Workers and the Politics of (im)mobility in Singapore.- Bhai-bhai? Migration of Bangladeshi Farmers to Indian Metropolises.- Migrant Workers and Recruitment Networks in Asian Fisheries.