A bowl of rice. A baked potato. A ripe tomato cooked down into sauce. A cob of buttery maize. A sweet red apple. Comfort food. Staple food. We eat them every day. They are so familiar that we barely stop to ask where they came from, or what stories they carry. But what if I…
Can migration drive development?
The We Society Podcast from the Academy of Social Sciences tackles the big questions through a social science lens and brings some of the best evidence-led ideas to shape the way we live. Hosted by journalist and Academy President Will Hutton, interviews some of Britain’s top social scientists to explore their solutions to society’s most…
Shrinking the justice gap
This UNU-CPR discussion paper written with Dr Caroline Nalule and Dr Diana Zacca Thomaz draws on evidence and data gathered by researchers in the Global South, as part of the Migration for Development and Equality (MIDEQ) Hub, to explore the concept of access to justice for migrants in the Global South, emphasising the importance of…
Political will and forced displacement
This report, written with OECD and UNU-CPR, examines the role of mobilising political will in establishing the conditions necessary for economic and social inclusion of refugees, internally displaced persons, and formerly displaced persons who achieve durable solutions such as voluntary return. It investigates the role and conditions to mobilise political will for more comprehensive and…
Debunking migration myths
Around the world, borders between countries are getting tougher. Governments are making it more difficult to move, especially for certain groups of vulnerable people. This comes with a message, subtle or not: that people are moving to higher-income countries to take advantage of the welfare system, or the jobs of people already living there. But evidence…
Dev Talk: new waves of migration
Migration needs to take a front seat in development agendas moving forward. Migration boosts the number of working-age people in a country, helps to fill shortages and diversifies economies, which can encourage more trade and investment. Yet, global development agendas have, up-to-this-point, failed to adequately integrate the role of human mobility into country strategies for…
Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality
Edited with Professor Joseph Kofi Teye, the open access Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global…
From “left behind” to “staying back”
Migration profoundly affects the lives of children – both those who move and those who do not. The phrase “left-behind children” is often used to refer to children who remain in their home country when their parents migrate to another country; and can also be applied to children whose parents have migrated internally. Existing research…
Heaven Crawley 