The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality, 1st ed. 2024

This open access handbook 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 South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights that can inform theoretical and policy understandings and unlock migration?s development potential. The handbook is divided into four parts, each highlighting often overlooked mobility patterns within and between regions of the Global South, as well as the inequalities faced by those who move. Key cross-cutting themes include gender, race, poverty and income inequality, migration decision making, intermediaries, remittances, technology, climate change, food security and migration governance. The handbook is an indispensable resource on South-South migration and inequality for academics, researchers, postgraduates and development practitioners.

1. South-South Migration, Inequality and Development: An Introduction.- PART I Conceptualising South-South Migration.- 2. The Enduring Impacts of Slavery: An Historical Perspective on South-South Migration.- 3. Recentering the South in Studies of Migration. 4. Writing the Camp.- 5. Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice.- 6. Rethinking Power and Reciprocity in the “Field”.- 7. What does it mean to move? Humanising Cultural Work in South-South Migration.- PART II Unpacking “the South” in South-South Migration.- 8. Trends in South-South Migration.- 9. The Dynamics of South-South Migration in Africa.- 10. Migration as a Collective Project in the Global South: a Case Study of Hadiya Migration to South Africa.- 11. Migration and Inequality in the Burkina Faso- Côte d’Ivoire Corridor.- 12. Unequal Origins to Unequal Destinations: Trends and Characteristics of Migrants' Social and Economic Inclusion in South America.- 13. The Making of Migration Trails in the Americas: Ethnographic Network Tracing of Haitians on the Move.- 14. Migrant Labour and Inequalities in the Nepal-Malaysia Corridor (and Beyond).- 15. Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: Chinese Migrants in Ghana.- 16. Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: African Migration to Latin America.- PART III Inequalities and South-South Migration.- 17. Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South.- 18. Gendered Migration in the Global South: An Intersectional Perspective on Inequality.- 19. Haitian Migration and Structural Racism in Brazil.- 20. Climate Change and Human Mobility in the Global South.- 21. Why, When and How? The Role of Inequality in Migration Decision-making.- 22. Overcoming and Reproducing Inequalities: Mediated Migration in the “Global South”.- 23. The Design and Use of Digital Technologies in the Context of South-South Migration.- 24. Migrant Resource Flows and Development in the Global South.- 25. South-South Migration and Children’s Education: Expanded Challenges and Increased Opportunities.- 26. Mapping the Linkages between Food Security, Inequality, Migration and Development in the Global South.- PART IV Responses to South-South Migration - 27. The Governance of South-South migration: Same or Different? - 28. Policies towards Migration in Africa.- 29. Migration Governance in South America: Change and Continuity in Times of “Crisis”.- 30. Perú and Migration from Venezuela: From Early Adjustment to Policy Misalignment.- 31. The “ASEAN Way” in Migration Governance.- 32. Unfair and Unjust: Temporary Labour Migration Programmes in and from Asia and the Pacific as Barriers to Migrant Justice.- 33.  Migrant Political Mobilisation and Solidarity Building in the Global South.

Heaven Crawley is Head of Equitable Development and Migration at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), New York, USA, and Visiting Professor of International Migration at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), UK. She was previously Head of Asylum and Migration Research at the UK Home Office and Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research, UK.

Joseph Kofi Teye is Director of Research at the Office of Research Innovation and Development at the University of Ghana and Associate Professor of Migration and Development in the Department of Geography and Resource Development of the University of Ghana. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Leeds, UK.