Migration between the countries of the Global South has the potential to reduce inequalities and contribute to development. This potential has yet to be fully realised. We work with an extensive network of Global South partners to transform understanding of the relationships between migration, development and inequality, translating new knowledge and ideas into policies and practices which improve the lives of migrants and enhance delivery of the SDGs.
Highlights
Blog Post
A Brighter Future Across the Atlantic?
Blog Post
How Global South Perspectives Challenge Thinking On Migration
New publication offers fresh perspectives and insights to unlock migration’s development potential.
Media Coverage
Can COP28 Deliver for Cities and Climate Migrants?
Strategic policy responses can help mitigate challenges while preparing cities for the future.
Publications
Brief
Complexity of Choice in Asylum Seeker Decision-making
A more nuanced, holistic approach to asylum seeker policies while challenging prevailing narratives.
Brief
From Left Behind to Staying Back: Changing How We Think About Children in Migrant Households
Challenging dominant narratives and developing policy interventions that aim to reduce childhood-related inequalities in contexts of migration.
Brief
Understanding the Links between Social Protection and Migration in Low- and Middle-income Countries
Exploring this relationship between access to social protection and the ability or need to migrate.
Brief
From Promises to Practice: Towards the Effective Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration
Recommendations to support implementation of the Global Compact on Migration.
Event
Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South
On 24 January 2023, UNU-CPR organized the second event in a series of policy roundtables.
Brief
Enhancing the Development Potential of South-South Migration
Enhancing the development impacts of remittances and migrants investments.
Brief
Shrinking the Justice Gap: Rethinking Access to Justice for Migrants in the Global South
Approaching migrants' access to justice as part and parcel of a broader agenda for social justice.
Brief
Safe Return and Voluntary Repatriation for Syrian Refugees from Lebanon: What Needs to Happen Next?
Exploring discussions around the safe, dignified repatriation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
Commentary
Blog Post
Can ‘Stop the Boats’ solve the UK’s migration problems?
We examine the UK Government’s ‘Stop the Boats’ legislation - and outline a more effective approach that works for both Government and migrants.
Blog Post
Climate-Related Migration Into Cities: Ethiopian Smallholders Heading to Addis Ababa
A more nuanced understanding of climate-related migration is needed which recognizes the importance of land tenure and job opportunities.
Blog Post
Repatriating Syrians from Lebanon: A Pivotal Role for UNHCR
As the region reels from the earthquake that devastated large parts of Syria, we reflect on ongoing debates surrounding the repatriation of Syrians.
Blog Post
Why Compassion Matters in Asylum Policy
Felicity Kersting, a Senior Researcher at NatCen International, explains why compassion should be at the heart of the international asylum system.
Blog Post
From Despair to Hope? Securing Rights for Haitian Migrants in the New Brazil
As Lula is sworn in as President, we reflect on what his election might mean for Haitians and other migrants living in Brazil.
Blog Post
Migrant Vulnerability and Structural Inequalities: The Case of Haiti
The policy implications of the path dependence created by inequalities and inequities in home countries that persist throughout the migration process.
Blog Post
Why the UK-Rwanda Asylum Deal Risks Harming Global Standards
We reflect on the newly announced asylum partnership agreement between the UK and Rwanda - and its wider implications.
Blog Post
Rights Literacy in the Context of Indigenous Migration
For Indigenous Peoples' Day, we explore a new initiative to support indigenous migrants in exercising their rights.
Migration Policy Roundtables
Event
Book Launch: Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality
UNU-CPR and partners gathered for the Palgrave Handbook book launch event with editors Heaven Crawley and Joseph Teye during Migration Week 2024.
Event
Towards Gender-Responsive Migration Governance
On 6 September UNU-CPR organized a migration policy roundtable to discuss gender-responsive migration governance.
Event
From Left Behind to Staying Back: Rethinking Policy Responses to Children in Migrant Households
Presenting new research and analysis that challenges dominant policy and practice narratives on stay behind children.
Event
Understanding Climate-Related Mobility in Contexts of Urbanization
This roundtable examined the challenges of climate-related mobility and processes of urbanization in the Global South.
Brief
Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South
Recommendations to ensure workers in the Global South have access to decent work.
Event
Contributions of Migration to Development in the MENA
This online panel explored the contributions of migration to development in the Middle East and North Africa, specifically Jordan and Lebanon.
Event
Launch of The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach
An online webinar to launch a new book documenting the experiences of Syrian refugees, 'The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach.'
Brief
From Promises to Practice: Towards the Effective Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration
Recommendations to support implementation of the Global Compact on Migration.
Event
Centring Equality in the Implementation of the Global Compact on Migration
This side-event to the International Migration Review Forum brought together high-level speakers from the UN, academia, and civil society.