Migrants, Livelihoods and Rights

Migrants, Livelihoods and Rights
Author: Arjan de Haan
Publisher: Social Development Department Department for International Development
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2000
Genre: Demography
ISBN:

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Argues that policies should aim to support migration and recognize the centrality of migration for the households' livelihoods. Based on a description of the complex composition of migration streams; the effects of migration; and the idea of migration as a social process

New Perspectives on Gender and Migration

New Perspectives on Gender and Migration
Author: Nicola Piper
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135911282

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This book discusses recent theoretical and empirical developments in international migration from a gender perspective. Its main objective is to analyse the diversification and stratification of gendered migratory streams with regard to skill level, labour market integration, and legal status. In turn a migrant’s position in relation to these axes influences access to entitlements and rights. Conceptually, the book builds upon the recent shift in scholarly research on migration, with women-centred research shifting more toward the analysis of gender. Migration is now viewed as a gendered phenomenon that requires more sophisticated theoretical and analytical tools than sex as a dichotomous variable. Theoretical formulations of gender as relational, and as spatially and temporally contextual have begun to inform gendered analyses of migration. The contributions to this book elaborate in more detail the broader social factors that influence migrating women’s and men’s roles, access to resources, facilities and services. Empirically, all major regions are discussed, pointing to common trends such as the increasing significance of the regionalization of migration flows as well as some noteworthy differences.

New Perspectives on Gender and Migration

New Perspectives on Gender and Migration
Author: Nicola Piper
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135911274

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This book discusses recent theoretical and empirical developments in international migration from a gender perspective. Its main objective is to analyse the diversification and stratification of gendered migratory streams with regard to skill level, labour market integration, and legal status. In turn a migrant’s position in relation to these axes influences access to entitlements and rights. Conceptually, the book builds upon the recent shift in scholarly research on migration, with women-centred research shifting more toward the analysis of gender. Migration is now viewed as a gendered phenomenon that requires more sophisticated theoretical and analytical tools than sex as a dichotomous variable. Theoretical formulations of gender as relational, and as spatially and temporally contextual have begun to inform gendered analyses of migration. The contributions to this book elaborate in more detail the broader social factors that influence migrating women’s and men’s roles, access to resources, facilities and services. Empirically, all major regions are discussed, pointing to common trends such as the increasing significance of the regionalization of migration flows as well as some noteworthy differences.

Empowering Migrant Women

Empowering Migrant Women
Author: Leah Briones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317144155

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Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development. The book contextualizes agency and rights in the workers' capability to secure a livelihood in the global political economy and is instrumental in making the problem of migrant women workers' empowerment both a migration and development agenda. The volume is essential reading for social scientists, bureaucrats and non-governmental political activists interested in the protection of the rights and livelihoods of migrants. It will also appeal to migration and feminist scholars who have yet to adopt the contribution of critical development studies in the analysis of low-skilled female labour migration.

The Economic Life of Refugees

The Economic Life of Refugees
Author: Karen Jacobsen
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1565492048

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What happens to refugees, the victims of forced migration, once the first rush of media attention and aid has passed and they must rebuild their lives essentially on their own? Karen Jacobsen explores the economic survival strategies of refugees, and the obstacles that they face, as they live in a protracted state of displacement. She also proposes alternative approaches for humanitarian agencies seeking to offer meaningful support.

Migration and Sustainable Livelihoods

Migration and Sustainable Livelihoods
Author: Chris McDowell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1997
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN: 9781858642130

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This literature survey focuses on the links between migration and sustainable livelihoods, looking in particular at the institutional factors that connect the two.

Migrant Workers and Human Rights

Migrant Workers and Human Rights
Author: Pong-Sul Ahn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2004
Genre: Alien labor, South Asian
ISBN:

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Migration, Land and Livelihoods

Migration, Land and Livelihoods
Author: George Curry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317620569

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This book critically and succinctly examines recent changes in land ownership, mobility and livelihoods in various Pacific island states, from East Timor to the Solomon Islands, where climate change, environmental change (including hazards of various origins), population growth and urbanization have contributed to new tensions and discords and resulted in complex structures of migration and resettlement. This has brought new and varied experiences of income and livelihood generation, and consequent reinterpretations of ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’. In a series of detailed case studies this book traces various responses to such socio-economic changes both in how they are locally envisaged, as pressures on land have intensified, urban informal settlements and livelihoods have expanded and perceptions of identity and property rights have changed, and in national development policy responses. It offers valuable reflections on the complex balance between continuity and change, the tensions between social and economic development, the will to develop and the management of dissent and difference. This book was published as a special issue of Australian Geographer.

The Atlas of Environmental Migration

The Atlas of Environmental Migration
Author: Dina Ionesco
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2016-11-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317693108

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As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater. The Atlas of Environmental Migration is the first illustrated publication mapping this complex phenomenon. It clarifies terminology and concepts, draws a typology of migration related to environment and climate change, describes the multiple factors at play, explains the challenges, and highlights the opportunities related to this phenomenon. Through elaborate maps, diagrams, illustrations, case studies from all over the world based on the most updated international research findings, the Atlas guides the reader from the roots of environmental migration through to governance. In addition to the primary audience of students and scholars of environment studies, climate change, geography and migration it will also be of interest to researchers and students in politics, economics and international relations departments.