South–South Migration: What is at Issue?

This volume on New Directions on South–South Migration critically examines the trends and dimensions of migration from the perspective of people from the South. It brings together a combination of leading and emerging scholars and practitioners, many of whom were trained or are working in the Global South, to examine the drivers, dynamics and consequences of this increasingly important phenomenon. We explore the economic forces that propel individuals to seek opportunities across borders, examine the social dimensions of this migration and draw attention to how South–South flows and its outcomes are assuming new intricacies tied to rapid global transformations and new challenges, such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. By exploring new areas and themes, the volume presents a new way of conceptualising and understanding South–South migration and provides greater visibility to processes of mobility and immobility that receive scant attention in mainstream, Northern-dominated migration research agenda setting and scholarship. Furthermore, it brings to the fore the voices of scholars from the South in a subdiscipline that for long been dominated by scholars from and in the North.