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  • New Directions in South-South Migration

    Edited by Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, Sujata Ramachandran ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of South-South migration. It explores crucial migration themes such as migrant integration in urban areas, migration and rural transformation, urban migration policy environment, migration corridors, and migrant precarity and survival, especially food security. It features contributions from eminent scholars in the Global South, namely, ... Read more

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  • Power of Development

    Edited by Jonathan Crush ...
    Post-colonial, post-modern and feminist critiques have challenged the ways we theorise and practice development. Development is not just the conclusion of economic logic; its histories reveal a legacy of contested power, illuminating the contemporary battlefields of knowledge. These essays explore the language of development, its rhetoric and meaning within different political and institutional ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa

    Edited by Liam Riley, Jonathan Crush ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Countries across Africa are rapidly transitioning from rural to urban societies. The UN projects that 60% of people living in Africa will be in urban areas by 2050, with the urban population on the continent tripling over the next 50 years. The challenge of building inclusive and sustainable cities in the context of rapid urbanization is arguably the critical development issue of the 21st Century ... Read more

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  • Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities

    Edited by Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush, Cameron McCordic ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on small-scale farmers, to the exclusion of broader socio-economic and infrastructural approaches, are misplaced and will remain largely ineffective in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Diasporas, Development and Governance

    Edited by Jonathan Crush, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Abel Chikanda ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on examples from the global North and South, this book examines the relationship between migration, development and diaspora engagement from a governance perspective. It explores the ways that governments interact with their own extra-national diasporic populations in order to boost economic development, build global trading and investment networks, and increase their political leverage ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A New Perspective on Human Mobility in the South

    Edited by Rudolf Anich, Jonathan Crush, Susanne Melde, John O. Oucho ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers innovative insights on South–South human mobility. It features a collection of papers that highlight often overlooked mobility patterns among and within regions in the global South as well as address critical realities faced by South-South migrants.This publication thoroughly investigates key issues of the migration debate, spanning from the terminological and contextual meaning ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa

    Edited by Jane Battersby, Jonathan Crush ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that, while the concept of food security holds value, it needs to be reconfigured to fit the everyday realities and distinctive trajectory of urbanisation in the region. The book ... Read more

    $80.99 USD