Mapping the Linkages Between Food Security, Inequality, Migration, and Development in the Global South

Abstract

AbstractIn this chapter, the authors draw attention to the ignored linkages between food security, inequality, migration, and development with respect to South-South migration. Building on core arguments reflecting on these ties and empirical studies from diverse sending and receiving contexts, they outline five distinctive ways in which these multidimensional relationships and interactions operate. The first aspect assesses how inequality of opportunities and outcomes affect food security to shape migration aspirations and movements. The second aspect discusses how food insecurity in a variety of conflict and crisis circumstances acts as the principal determinant and precipitant of forced migration. The third aspect addresses migrant remittances and their contribution to the food security of sending and recipient households. A fourth aspect highlights the activities of migrants in the food systems of receiving countries. Finally, the authors examine the food security circumstances of various migrant categories and connect it to migrant precarities at transit and destination sites. Their analysis problematises common framings of the migration-development nexus.