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From Ethiopia to South Africa: The human cost of a neglected migration route
This ongoing series from The New Humanitarian explores the humanitarian implications of South-South migration. Although South-South migration flows are larger than the numbers of people heading South to North – with all the inherent risks of undocumented travel – these cross-border, intra-regional journeys tend to be neglected by governments and aid agencies.
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Decentring knowledge production
Many assumptions are made about migration worldwide. Discourse and narrative relating to migration is often pernicious, erroneous and uses stock concepts. It is also based on partial knowledge filtered through the knowledge regimes of the Global North and the media of the Global North. This blog seeks to lay bare the normative assumptions in research and discourse about migration and to open up a stream of work whereby the causes and effects of these discourses and inequalities in knowledge production relating to migration and development in the South and in the North, can be interrogated.
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Youth on the Move: Views from Below on Ethiopian International Migration
Released by Hurst Publishers, this volume is a study of young Ethiopian migrants, that goes beyond the usual host-dominated narratives surrounding such upheaval to uncover the motivations of migrants themselves.
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Decolonising gender and migration research through collaborative thinking and practice
A two-day virtual workshop brought together researchers working on gender from across MIDEQ to explore key concepts on gender, migration and inequality as well as approaches to collaborating across Northern and Southern institutions in ways that decentre and decolonise research on gender and migration.
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