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Gender Awareness in Migration Theory: Synthesizing Actor and Structure in Southern Africa

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Recent developments in migration theory mirror two concerns writ large across the development literature, namely the attempt to reconcile structure and agency and the importance of gender. Using the specific context of southern Africa, this article analyses the development of migration theory over the last forty years and the dialectic between gender and the structure‐agency dyad. It is argued that gender is an essential tool for unpicking the migration process and that a gender perspective has enriched and been enriched by a model of migration allowing analytical space for both the agency of migrants and the structures which surround them. Juxtaposing the various theories which have been brought to bear on migration in southern Africa also reveals the extent to which new models and classificatory systems have developed on the basis of agendas set by preceding conceptual frameworks, distinctions between competing models rarely being as clear‐cut as the mode of scholarship would have them appear.

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  • Caroline Wright, 1995. "Gender Awareness in Migration Theory: Synthesizing Actor and Structure in Southern Africa," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 26(4), pages 771-792, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:26:y:1995:i:4:p:771-792
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1995.tb00574.x
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    1. de Haan, A., 2011. "Inclusive growth?," ISS Working Papers - General Series 22201, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
    2. Bakewell, Oliver, 2009. "South-South Migration and Human Development: Reflections on African Experiences," MPRA Paper 19185, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Arjan de Haan, 2006. "Migration in the Development Studies Literature: Has It Come Out of Its Marginality?," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2006-19, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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