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Migration, brokerage, precarity and agency
University of Sussex, UK, 2019Globally, brokerage is widespread in migrant labour markets. Brokers fill the gap between migrants and the countries or places they are travelling to, and help migrants traverse complex immigration systems, border controls and labour markets.NewsSussex research findings continue to influence policy on migration and poverty
17 Dec 2019: After nearly a decade, the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium (MOOP) is drawing to a close, having conducted research in more than ten countries in an effort to uncover how and why migration plays such a significant role in poverty reduction in some contexts, but not in others.DocumentThe value of mobilizing local resources for women’s rights in the global south and east: case studies of ten women’s funds
Prospera - International Network of Women's Funds, 2015New research by Mama Cash, the International Network of Women’s Funds, and the International Human Rights Funders Group explores the role of resource mobilisation in expanding local support for women’s rights and strengthening local cultures of philanthropy in the Global South and East.DocumentMobile phones and education in Sub-Saharan Africa: from youth practice to public policy
Journal of International Development, 2015Young people's use of mobile phones is expanding exponentially across Africa. Its transformative potential is exciting, but findings presented in this paper indicate how the downside of mobile phone use in African schools is becoming increasingly apparent.DocumentYouth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study
University of Durham, 2014The expansion of mobile phone use in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly over the last five years, has been remarkable in terms of speed of adoption, spatial penetration and, not least, the fact that this is an essentially spontaneous development firmly embedded in private sector activity.DocumentStudent power in twenty-first century Africa: The character and role of student organising
Routledge, 2016In March 2015, a wave of student protests, starting at the University of CapeDocumentChildren’s mobility in Ghana: An overview of methods and findings from the Ghana research study
Society, Biology and Human Affairs, 2011This paper is part of a collection forming A Special Issue, which covers selected themes from a larger project on child mobility in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. The themes are those which individual members of the Ghana research team identified as of particular interest and on which they have reflected, drawing on material collected and analysed by the team as a whole.DocumentA Moving Issue: Children and young people’s transport and mobility constraints in Africa
International Forum for Rural Transport and Development, 2010Children and young people are rarely at the forefront of transport studies, despite the fact that their ability to access health and educational facilities is crucial to the achievement of internatioanl development goals.DocumentWhen does the state listen?
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016In this article, we look at four cases of key historical policies in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania to examine how states engage with citizen voices. The policies all took place in contexts of political change and major junctures of democratisation.DocumentFrom natural resource dependence to diversified economies: an agenda for future research
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014This policy note aims to outline potential future directions for research on natural resource governance in Africa, with specific focus on the extraction of minerals and hydrocarbons.Pages