About the Book
This dynamic Companion explores the connections - and disconnections - between migration and sustainable development as articulated by the UN’s Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Providing a critical appraisal of Agenda 2030, it examines the extent to which the SDGs encompass migration and migrant-related experiences within the context of the pledge to ‘leave no-one behind’.
Presenting intersectional approaches alongside nuanced understandings of crisis and climate change induced mobility, this Companion interrogates the complex linkages and intersections between sustainable development and contemporary migration. Chapters assess the importance of the policy and governance of migration and the SDGs across local, regional, and global scales, drawing on examples from diverse sectors, geographies, and migration corridors. The Companion provides a comprehensive analysis of the importance of inserting migration into SDG debates on a wide range of issues, including poverty and inequality, climate change and food insecurity, education, labour rights, the migrant right to vote, and diaspora finance.
This insightful Companion will prove an essential resource to postgraduate students and scholars of development studies, migration studies, human geography, education, and international relations. Its substantive focus on the core development agenda will also benefit policymakers invested in the implementation of the SDGs.
Table of Contents:
Contents:
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Agenda 2030 and migration: a blueprint for transformative change or
business as usual? 1
Kavita Datta and Nicola Piper
PART II CONCEPTUALISING MIGRATION AND AGENDA 2030:
CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
2 Reflections on (im)mobilities and/in crisis 13
Anna Lindley
3 Migration, intersectionality and the Sustainable Development Goals:
unrealised potential? 27
Kavita Datta and Tanja Bastia
4 Gender-based violence, international migration and Agenda 2030 39
Cathy McIlwaine
5 Climate change, migration and the Sustainable Development Goals 52
Louisa Brain
6 Migration, inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals 63
Laura Hammond, Giulia Casentini and Oliver Bakewell
7 The migration-development nexus and its institutionalisation: the
Sustainable Development Goals as a global social contract for migrants? 77
Nicola Piper and Matthew Walsham
8 The Sustainable Development Goals and the global governance of
migration: a necropolitical view 92
Ariadna Estévez
PART III THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF MIGRATION AND MIGRANT EXPERIENCES
9 The Sustainable Development Goals and skilled migration: a review
and agenda 111
Parvati Raghuram
10 Migration, education and development 124
Elaine Chase and Amy North
11 Identity documentation as development: how do migrants and their
children figure? 136
Allison J. Petrozziello
12 Digital technologies, migration and the Sustainable Development Goals agenda 150
G Harindranath and Tim Unwin
13 Migration, food (in)security and the Sustainable Development Goals:
insights from the Global South and North 164
Kavita Datta, Tim Brown and Thabani Mutambasere
14 Migrant remittances, social protection and the Sustainable Development Goals 178
Sujata Ramachandran and Jonathan Crush
15 Migration, remittances and the search for a better life: longitudinal
evidence from the Philippines 193
Lucy P Jordan, Yao Fu, Brenda SA Yeoh, Theodora Lam, Maruja MB Asis
and Melissa Garabiles
16 Diaspora resource flows as a vehicle for sustainable development 213
Stephen Gelb
17 Migration, health and development: the case of South Africa 229
Edward Govere and Langelihle Mlotshwa
18 The migrant franchise 247
Luicy Pedroza
PART IV POLICY AND MULTI-SCALAR GOVERNANCE OF
MIGRATION AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
19 Applying a peace lens to migration 264
Claske Dijkema, Andrea Grossenbacher and Metka Herzog
20 Towards Sustainable Development Goal indicators for portable justice 280
Cathleen Caron and Beth Lyon
21 Migration and sustainable development from a social policy perspective 304
Katja Hujo
22 Of patterns, processes and priorities: what the Global Compact for
Migration Means by ‘aligning’ partnerships to the UN Agenda 2030 316
Marion Panizzon and Luzia Jurt
23 Cities, migration and the Sustainable Development Goals: an ongoing
‘David and Goliath’ relationship 335
Felicitas Hillmann
24 The Sustainable Development Goals, migration and regionalism:
evidence from Africa 354
Joseph Kofi Teye, Thomas Yeboah and Mary Boatemaa Setrana
25 Missing wages and mismatched skills: guestworker migration and the
shortcomings of the Decent Work Agenda 375
Matt Withers
26 Internal migration and the Sustainable Development Agenda 389
Ellie Gore
About the Author :
Edited by Nicola Piper, Professor of International Migration and British Academy Global Professor Fellow, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London and Kavita Datta, Professor of Development Geography, School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Review :
‘All the authors in this volume grapple with difficult, overlapping, complex issues and think deeply about how migration and migrants are both inherently embedded in and excluded from Agenda 2030 and its vision for a path forward. The book merits a cover-to-cover read, but each individual chapter stands on its own and the book can therefore be dipped into by migration scholars with a particular interest in labour, climate change, intersectionality, gender, technology, children's rights, food security, health, social policy, internal displacement, and many more critically important topics in the field.’
‘This insightful Companion demonstrates an essential focus on the core development agenda, which will also benefit policymakers, scholars and others invested in the implementation of the SDGs.’
‘This timely and carefully curated collection offers a wonderful companion to understanding the complex relationship between migration and the SDGs. The interdisciplinary group of contributors offers invaluable insights across an impressive range of issues and geographical areas, highlighting multiple inequalities and intersectional intricacies.’
‘For some time, we have needed a text that brings international migration and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development together under one lens. Nicola Piper and Kavita Datta have delivered that, in a volume that is grounded in local lived experience, shedding new light on a complex contemporary issue. Brilliant!’
