Publications
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Our work
Read our papers, journals and policy briefs which explore our research.
- Working papers
The effects of return migration on household welfare: Evidence from Ethiopia [PDF 2.69MB]
Follow the money: Tactics, dependancies, and shifting relations [PDF 1.02MB]
The impact of migration on the welfare of households left behind in rural Ghana [PDF 302.41KB]
'Bringing time' into migration and critical border studies [PDF 717.11KB]
Changing patterns of migration and remittances in Ethiopia [PDF 1.68MB]
Changing patterns of migration and remittances in rural Ghana [PDF 315.21KB]
Zimbabwean migrant domestic worker activism in South Africa [PDF 978.46KB]
Encouraging 'returns', obstructing departures and constructing causal links [PDF 790.98KB]
Drivers of intra-regional and inter-regional migration in Africa [PDF 1.36MB]
We have the research but where is the influence [PDF 711.86KB]
Translocal subjectivities within households 'in flux' in Indonesia [PDF 649.84KB]
Gendered Practices of Remittances in Bangladesh_A Poststructuralist Perspective [PDF 618.11KB]
Does Migration Improve Living Standards of Migrant-Sending Households [PDF 1.13MB]
Choosing a Life_Remittances and Youth Aspirations in Bangladeshi Villages [PDF 551.37KB]
Changing Policy: Lessons from the passing of the 2013 South African TIP Act [PDF 532.21KB]
Public Policy Formulation: A Case Study of Domestic Workers in Bangladesh [PDF 515.12KB]
The Dynamics of Policy Formulation and Implementation [PDF 774.12KB]
Migration and Socio-Economic Development in African Cities [PDF 593.76KB]
Moving to greener pastures? Internal migration, land tenure and poverty in mid-Ghana [PDF 1.23MB]
Migration Consumption Smoothing and Household Income: Evidence from Thailand [PDF 1.01MB]
Migration and Social Networks: Evidence from Bangladesh [PDF 677.42KB]
Pragmatic Pathways: Critical Perspectives on Research Uptake in the Global South [PDF 668.40KB]
Migrating out of Poverty in Zimbabwe [PDF 917.35KB]
Are Migrant Households better off than Non-Migrant Households? Evidence from Ghana [PDF 935.06KB]
How Migration into Urban Construction Work Impacts on Rural Households in Nepal [PDF 1.24MB]
Institutional strengthening of the office of Labour Attaches: Kuala Lumpur field work [PDF 616.57KB]
Counting the Cost of Securitising South Africa’s Immigration Regime [PDF 538.46KB]
Poverty, Youth and Rural-Urban Migration in Ethiopia [PDF 601.59KB]
International Migration, Trade and Aid: A Survey [PDF 960.04KB]
Internal and Regional Migration for Construction Work: A Research Agenda [PDF 598.08KB]
Can rural-urban migration contribute to poverty reduction?: Evidence from Ghana [PDF 575.96KB]
Internal Remittances and Poverty: Further Evidence from Africa and Asia [PDF 89.98KB]
Social Polarisation and Migration to Johannesburg [PDF 90.38KB]
A Review of Internal and Regional Migration Policy in Southeast Asia [PDF 744.04KB]
Internal migration and poverty: Evidence from Ghana and India' [PDF 694.86KB]
Decent Work Country Programmes And Human Mobility [PDF 1.19MB]
Impact of Migration on Poverty and Development [PDF 640.88KB]
- Journal articles
Parental migration and the educational enrolment of left-behind children: evidence from rural Ponorogo, Indonesia
‘Skeptics’ and ‘believers’: anti-trafficking, sex work, and migrant rights activism in South Africa
The globalisation of trafficking and its impact on the South African counter-trafficking legislation
Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility
Social Embeddedness of Human Smuggling in East Africa: Brokering Ethiopian Migration to Sudan
Please, thank you and sorry – brokering migration and constructing identities for domestic work in Ghana
Chutes-and-ladders: the migration industry, conditionality, and the production of precarity among migrant domestic workers in Singapore
Producing ideal Bangladeshi migrants for precarious construction work in Qatar
The future of mobility and migration within and from sub-Saharan Africa
Transnational migration and the involuntary return of undocumented migrants across the Cambodian–Thai border
The making and unmaking of precarious, ideal subjects - migration brokerage in the Global South
The entanglements of migration and marriage: negotiating mobility projects among young Indonesian women from migrant-sending villages
How unpopular policies are made: Examples from South Africa, Singapore, and Bangladesh
“The lottery of my life”: Migration trajectories and the production of precarity among Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore's construction industry
[Re]-presenting knowledge: The coverage of xenophobia research in selected South African newspapers 2008-2013
Bangladeshi construction workers and the politics of (im)mobility in Singapore
Who Migrates? Tracking Gendered Access to Migration Within Households “In Flux” Across Time
Migration governance and the migration industry in Asia: moving domestic workers from Indonesia to Singapore
Drivers of migration policy reform: The day off policy for migrant domestic workers in Singapore
Debt, precarity and gender: Male and female temporary labour migrants in Singapore
Renegotiating migration experiences: Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore and use of information communication technologies
Labour Migration to the Construction Sector in India and its Impact on Rural Poverty
Towards contextualised, disaggregated and intersectional understandings of migration in India
Indonesian domestic workers and the (un)making of transnational livelihoods and provisional futures
Women Moving Within Borders: Gender and Internal Migration dynamics in Ghana
The life struggles and successes of the migrant construction worker in Accra, Ghana
SouthâSouth Migration for Domestic Work and Poverty
Climate-related migration in rural Bangladesh: a behavioural model
‘Upwards’ or ‘Sideways’ cosmopolitanism? Talent/labour/marriage migrations in the globalising city-state of Singapore
Prospects for free movement in the East African Community
Planning and Participation in Cities that Move: Identifying Obstacles to Municipal Mobility Management
Changing Local Government Responses to Migration in South Africa
- Policy briefs
The impact of migration on the welfare of households left behind in rural Ghana [PDF 302.41KB]
Enhancing the welfare of migrant-sending households in Zimbabwe [PDF 905.95KB]
Migration, brokerage, precarity and agency [PDF 1.20MB]
The state, brokers and migration in Ethiopia [PDF 1.81MB]
Le trafic de migrants en Casamance au Senegal (en francais) [PDF 1.37MB]
Migrant Smuggling in the Casamance area of Senegal [PDF 5.46MB]
Changing patterns of migration and remittances in rural Ghana [PDF 315.21KB]
Navigating complex social relations [PDF 341.31KB]
Regularising labour migration of Zimbabwe domestic workers in South Africa [PDF 711.62KB]
Child migrants along the Abidjan-Lagos corridor (CORAL) [PDF 185.69KB]
South Africa research brief - Gender and Generation [PDF 248.85KB]
Rendering services to female migrants by Labour Attachés of Bangladesh [PDF 5.37MB]
Ghana research brief - Migration Industry [PDF 351.58KB]
Ghana research brief - Income and Remittances [PDF 340.12KB]
Ghana research brief - Gender and Generation [PDF 334.40KB]
Ethiopia research brief - Migration Industry - Amharic [PDF 750.00KB]
Ethiopia research brief - Income and Remittances - Amharic [PDF 660.26KB]
Ethiopia research brief - Gender and Generation - Amharic [PDF 699.70KB]
Strengthening migration data for decision making: innovations in design and collection [PDF 1.45MB]
The business model of brokers in Bangladesh, Ghana, and Singapore: Lessons for policy [PDF 409.85KB]
Changing Policy: Lessons from the passing of the 2013 South African TIP Act [PDF 532.21KB]
Thinking twice: Myths about migration [PDF 2.21MB]
"The current system is no good": The Challenges of Singapore's Domestic Work Industry [PDF 468.15KB]
Social Benefits and Losses of Migrating into Cities in Ghana [PDF 385.09KB]
Migration into Cities in Ghana: The Economic Benefi ts to Migrants and their Households [PDF 1.16MB]
Public Policy Formulation: A Case Study of Domestic Workers in Bangladesh [PDF 515.12KB]
Migration as a Pro-Poor Livelihood Strategy: The case of Ponorogo Policy Booklet [PDF 1.82MB]
'Precarious Labour: Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore' [PDF 825.15KB]
The costs and benefits of domestic work as a livelihood strategy [PDF 415.81KB]
Ensuring Decent Work in Singapore’s Domestic Work Industry [PDF 250.80KB]
Migrating out of Poverty? Evidence from Informal Settlements in Accra, Ghana [PDF 879.88KB]
BP02 (March 2012) 'Migration in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs)' [PDF 496.66KB]
BP01 (October 2011) 'Internal migration and poverty: Evidence from Ghana and India' [PDF 694.86KB]
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