Humanitarian interventions are not traditionally associated with diasporas, yet the roles diasporic communities perform during crises often transcend conventional boundaries. Focusing on the war in Ukraine, this paper aims to investigate less-visible humanitarian ecosystems and how diasporic actors...

La ola migratoria de Venezuela es consecuencia de una enorme crisis económica que entre 2013 y 2021 redujo el PBI de ese país en más de 75%, provocando la salida hasta la fecha de siete millones de personas, de las cuales unos seis millones se encuentran en países de América Latina y el Caribe. La...

En 2022, la Red de las Naciones Unidas en Perú fomentó la participación e involucramiento de actores clave en las actividades de preparación y desarrollo del primer Foro de Examen de la Migración Internacional (FEMI). En este artículo publicado por Naciones Unidas, la Red resume el desarrollo de la...

Mexico City, already one of the largest cities in the world, could see as many as five million climate migrants added to its population by 2050. Recognizing this coming reality, the city’s government is preparing for its future today, taking bold actions to support migrant residents who have already...

Dos polos regionales de atracción, Santiago de Chile y la Ciudad de México son hogar y tierra de tránsito y de retorno para muchos migrantes y refugiados de varias partes del mundo. Estos dos centros urbanos brindan una amplia gama de oportunidades socioeconómicas y protección para quienes buscan...

Cities are at the heart of a mosaic of relationships between our globalized societies and an ever-evolving international migration. In this unprecedented era of increasing urbanization, cities have become the entry point for over 60% of migrants living outside their countries of origin in seek of...

How can international law protect both international security and the human rights of displaced people? Existing international law protects only displaced refugees: those who flee persecution on the basis of religion, race, nationality, or political opinion. This article argues that a new Displaced...

How does international law protect migrants? For the most part, it does not. Of the millions of people who flee persecution, conflict, and poverty each year, international law protects only refugees: those who flee persecution on the basis of religion, race, nationality, political opinion, or...

Migration is to be understood as a complex, structured and inherent phenomenon. The phenomenon of migration, or more broadly, the phenomenon of human mobility, insofar as it is coextensive with human life and human flow, cannot be tackled, let alone regulated and contained, with the approach that is...

In December 2018, the UN General Assembly adopted two Global Compacts: The Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). These two compacts, while non-binding and aspirational in nature, offer the first widely-accepted new normative frameworks...

Based on 324 in-depth interviews with Indian, Moroccan, Ukrainian, Bosnian and Filipino migrants based in four EU countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and the UK), this paper explores the relationship between social remittances and transnational mobility. The authors develop a new typology of social...

In this article, the concept of social remittances is revisted. First, the authors show how people's experiences before migrating strongly influence what they do in the countries where they settle; this, in turn, affects what they remit back to their homelands. Second, just as scholars differentiate...

The term “social remittances” was coined over fifteen years ago to capture the notion that, in addition to money, migration also entails the circulation of ideas, practices, skills, identities, and social capital also circulate between sending and receiving communities. The articles in this special...

This paper explores the role played by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the consultations and stocktaking during 2017 and the negotiations during 2018 leading up to the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). It examines selected parts of the text...

A photo essay about Derrick Avenue, a lively high street in Cyrildene eastern suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Up until the early 1990s, Derrick Avenue was largely characterised by Jewish, and to a lesser extent, Greek residents as well as related spatial markers. The street has since then...

This article explores precarity as a conceptual framework to understand the intersection of migration and low-waged work in the global south. Using a case study of cross-border migrant domestic workers in South Africa, the case study discusses current debates on framing and understanding precarity...

Like many other countries, South Africa (SA) has committed to the Sustainable Development Goals that aim to “leave no-one behind”, in efforts towards universal health coverage, and meeting the UNAIDS 90–90–90 targets through the implementation of universal test and treat (UTT) interventions. SA is...

As different forms of Global China have emerged and expanded throughout the African continent, this phenomenon has also materialised spatially. The authors suggest that migrants must be approached as social actors who are integral to city-making as they engage in the daily life of cities through...

For decades, mobility between the Sahel and northern Africa was mostly irregular, but not clandestine. Most of the border crossings were supervised and (illegally) taxed by border police; everyone knew who did what with whom, and Saharan drivers were not thought of as smugglers of people. Starting...

In this paper, it is argued that remigration is not a valid indicator to measure sustainable return. A new definition and approach to defining and measuring sustainable return is presented based on a multidimensional return and reintegration index, which is tested with a sample of 118 returnees in...