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Migration and Poverty: Linkages, Knowledge Gaps and Policy Implications

In: South-South Migration

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  • Arjan Haan
  • Shahin Yaqub

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.

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  • Arjan Haan & Shahin Yaqub, 2010. "Migration and Poverty: Linkages, Knowledge Gaps and Policy Implications," Social Policy in a Development Context, in: Katja Hujo & Nicola Piper (ed.), South-South Migration, chapter 6, pages 190-219, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-0-230-28337-4_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230283374_6
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