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The Migration-Remittance Dividend: Building Food Security Across the Commonwealth

Migration and remittance processes have a significant impact on socioeconomic development and food security in Commonwealth countries. Although remittances are critical sources of income for migrant-sending households in countries of origin, their effects are shaped by economic arrangements, financial inclusion and policy contexts. Moreover, the linkages between migration, remittances and food security remain largely underexplored.

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Precarity, Food Insecurity, and Migration: The Kerala-Gulf Nexus and Women Domestic Workers

Low-skilled Malayali women migrants employed as domestic laborers in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)1 countries navigate a transnational labor system that entrenches gendered hierarchies and structural inequalities. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Kerala and the United Arab Emirates utilizing biographical methods such as life history and oral history reveals that migration, often envisioned as a pathway to

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Male Circular Migration, Rural-Urban and Gender Dynamics, and Food Security in India

This paper examines the ways in which male circular migration as a household livelihood strategy affects food access among rural households in India. Circular male labor migration is the dominant form of labor mobility in many parts of India. This migration pattern creates important rural-urban linkages through income transfers and alters the gender power relations

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Urban Food (In)security and the Role of Migrant Informal Food Waste Recyclers in Delhi

Urban food systems in developing countries like India are rife with inequalities that preclude food security for all. In this context, the paper examines the role played by informal workers in the ‘circular economy’ for food in improving the accessibility of food and urban food security in Delhi, India. Evidence from an informal street market

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Rural-urban Transition and Food Security in India

As a growing proportion of world’s population lives in cities and towns, food security is increasingly acquiring an urban character. The locus of food security research and policy agendas has correspondingly expanded from rural areas to include urban centres in recent years. However, the dominant discourse on urbanization-food security relationship appears to be shaped by perspectives from the Global

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Food Security Among Female Migrant Workers in Kerala Returning from the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

This paper seeks to enhance our comprehension of the interplay between COVID-19, international labour migration, and food security. The primary objective is to discern food security characteristics among female migrant workers (FMWs) returning to Kerala from Gulf countries, particularly under heightened social and economic uncertainties shared with male migrant workers (MMWs). This study conducted in the state of Kerala, India, examines the food security

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COVID-19, Internal Transitions and Vulnerable Citizens: Narratives of the Migrant Crisis in India during the Pandemic

This article illustrates how the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic led to an internal migrant crisis in India, making the country realise the presence of physical borders within itself. Through a narrative analysis of the chronicles of internal migrant workers and the migrant crisis published in print media during the first wave of COVID-19,

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“Little Pockets of Happiness”: Nepali Migrants and Momos Informal Enterprises in New Delhi, India

This research project will examine these momo economies by documenting the role and participation of Tibetan and Nepali migrants in the informal food economies of momo production, distribution, and retailing in India’s capital city. My preliminary desktop-centred research has confirmed that the refugee/migrant momo food economy is diversified both geographically and in terms of its

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Tracing the Links Between Migration and Food Security in Bangladesh

Mohammad Moniruzzaman & Margaret Walton-Roberts  •  This chapter reports results from a household survey conducted in 2014-15 in four villages of two sub-districts in Bangladesh to assess the effect of international remittance on household food security through the use of multiple outcome indicators. The burden of household food insecurity in developing countries is a central development

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Impact of COVID-19 on Women Migrant Workers: Case of Domestic Workers in the South Asia-Gulf Corridor

S Irudaya Rajan & Rakkee Thimothy  •  The chapter examines the impact of COVID-19 on low skilled women migrant workers by taking up the case of domestic workers from South Asia to the Gulf. The chapter builds on the extensive literature on the vulnerabilities faced by women migrant domestic workers and presents evidence of their

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