Migration and Poverty: Linkages, Knowledge Gaps and Policy Implications

Arjan Haan and Shahin Yaqub

Chapter 6 in South-South Migration, 2010, pp 190-219 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores the links between migration and poverty, and their implications for social policy. It argues that research on linkages between migration and poverty can, and should, start with knowledge about poverty itself: what it is, what causes it, what reduces it, poor people’s agency as well as constraints, and so on. Poverty research offers several established understandings on the natures, structures and processes driving poverty, and these should be central to how the issues are framed in migration research and policy. The chapter argues that context-dependency, rather than generalized conclusions, is the main way forward. This could help develop migration research that is more strongly poor-centric, and, consequently, move migration debates and policies toward issues more favourable and relevant to the poor.

Keywords: Social Policy; International Migration; Brain Drain; Migrant Child; Urban Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230283374_6

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