Book Chapters

The significance of migration to social and economic development has been widely recognized and discussed for many decades. It has, however, only been since the early 2000s that international migration has been acknowledged as a key global challenge and, thus, been placed squarely on the agenda of the United Nations. Unlike their predecessors, the millennium development goals (MDGs), the sustainable development goals (SDGs) also make explicit reference to migration, thereby incorporating migration into global development policy, alongside other pressing global challenges such as inequality, gender discrimination, and ...

Jonathan Crush & Sujata Ramachandran  •  In this chapter, the authors draw attention to the ignored linkages between food security, inequality, migration, and development with respect to South-South migration. Building on core arguments reflecting on these ties and empirical studies from diverse sending and receiving contexts, they outline five distinctive ways in which these multidimensional relationships and interactions operate. The first aspect assesses how inequality of opportunities and outcomes affect food security to shape migration aspirations and movements. The second aspect ...

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 and welfare concern, and it is important to assess how international remittances might improve household food security. The results indicate that migrant remittances contribute to ...

Inês Macamo Raimundo  •  The Maputo Province is located in southern Mozambique, bordered by the Republic of South Africa and the Kingdom of e-Swatini, a key geographical condition among the reasons for fast demographic growth, side by side with higher job opportunities internally and regionally along with the proximity with Maputo city, the capital of the Republic of Mozambique. At the same time, internal and international migrants either use the Province as the final destination or as transit to access ...

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 extreme vulnerability during COVID-19. Their situation is made worse by the paternalistic attitude of the sending countries to protect women migrant domestic workers. At the ...