Full Description
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.
Contents
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.
