2023

‘A Foreigner is Not a Person in This Country’: Xenophobia and the Informal Sector in South Africa’s Secondary Cities

South Africa’s major cities are periodically wracked by large-scale xenophobic violence directed at migrants and refugees from other countries. Informal sector businesses and their migrant owners and employees are particularly vulnerable targets during these attacks. Migrant-owned businesses are also targeted on a regular basis in smaller-scale looting and destruction of property. There is now a […]

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Digital Disruptions in the South Africa-Zimbabwe Remittance Corridor During COVID-19

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant remittances has generated a great deal of confusion and debate. This article aims to test three conflicting global and local narratives about the relationship between the pandemic and remittance flows in the South Africa–Zimbabwe remittance corridor. We refer to these as remittance pessimism, remittance resilience and remittance

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A Imigração Africana e os Novos Espaços Urbanos no Municipio da Cidada de Maputo

Os estudos de migração enfatizam as causas dos movimentos populacionais, impacto demográfico e econômico e distribuição espacial dos fluxos migratórios dando menor foco aos novos espaços urbanos criados por aqueles que vieram de outros lugares dentro dos territórios africanos. O foco deste estudo são os imigrantes africanos na cidade de Maputo no sentido de compreender

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Intersections of Race, COVID-19 Pandemic, and Food Security in Black Identifying Canadian Households: A Scoping Review

Although studies have identified food insecurity as a racialized inequity issue disproportionately affecting Black identifying Canadians, research exploring how anti-Black racism across multiple systems create inequities including increased risk for food insecurity among African Caribbean Black identifying households in Canada, is limited. Using an intersectionality lens, this scoping review addresses this knowledge gap by elucidating

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Urban Community Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa: Navigating Land Access and Land Tenure Security

Land tenure security continues to pose a significant challenge to the sustainability of urban community gardens in global South cities. However, a few studies have explored the mechanisms that urban gardeners employ to facilitate land access and variations in land tenure security arrangements made with land owners in South African cities. This paper employs a

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Migrant Domestic Workers and the Household Division of Intimate Labour: Reconfiguring Eldercare Relations in Singapore

As Singapore confronts escalating demands for eldercare labour in the face of rapid ageing, families are increasingly resorting to market-based, gender-normative options predicated on the care-chain migration of women to resolve familial care deficits. At the same time, given the prevalence of discourses of Asian familialism, the abdication of eldercare responsibilities to non-familial caregivers whose

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The Critical Temporalities of Serial Migration and Family Social Reproduction in Southeast Asia

The prevailing neoliberal labour migration regime in Asia is underpinned by principles of enforced transience: the overwhelming majority of migrants – particularly those seeking low-skilled, low-waged work – are admitted into host nation-states on the basis of short-term, time-bound contracts, with little or no possibility of family reunification or permanent settlement at the destination. As

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Application of Item Response Theory Modelling to Measure an Aggregate Food Security Access Score

Food security measurement is of paramount importance as it guides governance, policy formulation and intervention projects targeting and monitoring and evaluation. The measurement of food insecurity has proven to be a difficult task owing to the multi-dimensionality of the construct and different measurements have been developed to measure different dimensions of food insecurity. However, it

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New Immigrant Destinations and the Role of the Migration Industry: Moving Filipino Domestic Workers to Mainland China

In recent years, while scholarly work on new immigrant destinations (NIDs) within the United States and Europe has increased, little attention has been given the role and significance of the migration industry in promoting the emergence of NIDs. This is a particularly significant lacuna as some Asian nations are undergoing dramatic migration transition despite the

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Re-emerging from a Hiatus: Migrants and Migration in a Post-Pandemic World

In my last editorial as the editor-in-chief of Migration and Development, titled “Migration at a Crossroads: COVID-19 and Challenges to Migration”, I wondered what the world of migration and migration corridors would look like after the world recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic (Rajan, 2020). I was confident that migration as a phenomenon would endure, as

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