This collection from an international set of contributors explores the relationship between migration and inequality in Africa, Asia and Latin America, assessing the impact of migration on structures of caste, gender and class, and offering both empirical evidence and theoretical understandings on the relationship between migration and inequality.
Part I: Overview 1. Migration and Inequality: An introduction Tanja Bastia 2. Immigration and Global Inequality: A cross-national analysis Matthew Sanderson Part II: Governance and Migrants' Rights 3. Resisting Inequality: The rise of global migrants rights activism Nicola Piper 4. International Labour Migration: Dynamics in Southeast Asia migration and inequality Amarjit Kaur Part III: Internal and Cross-Border Migration 5. Ghanaian Mobilities, Interstecting Inequalities and Transnational Activities Leander Kandilige 6. Migration, Urban Health and Inequality in Johannesburg Jo Vearey Part IV: Migration, Gender and Intersectionality 7. Migration as Protest? Negotiating gender, class and ethnicity in urban Bolivia Tanja Bastia 8. Mobility as Enabling Gender Equality? The case of international aid workers Anne-Meike Fechter 9. Migration, Health and Inequalities: Reflections on the experience of Latin American migrants in London Jasmine Gideon
Tanja Bastia is Lecturer in the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, UK