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Remitting through crisis: Looking beyond resilience in UK migrant and diaspora communities (2024)
Journal Article
Lindley, A., Datta, K., Chase, E., Fadal, K., Hammond, L., Loureiro, G., & Majeed-Hajaj, S. (2024). Remitting through crisis: Looking beyond resilience in UK migrant and diaspora communities. Migration Studies, 12(3), mnae026. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnae026

Migrants’ remittances have often been understood to operate as a form of insurance for families, communities and countries of origin, increasing in times of downturn and disaster. But what happens when the same crisis hits both destination and origin... Read More about Remitting through crisis: Looking beyond resilience in UK migrant and diaspora communities.

Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South (2023)
Book Chapter
Casentini, G., Hammond, L., & Bakewell, O. (2023). Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South. In H. Crawley, & J. K. Teye (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality (pp. 371-392). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39814-8_17

In this chapter, we critically engage with the existing literature to explore how the condition of countries of origin, the situation in countries of destination and the role of remittances relate to the key analytical instruments of poverty and inco... Read More about Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South.

Access to care and support during Covid-19 (2022)
Other
Chase, E., Datta, K., Hammond, L., Lindley, A., Fadal, K., Majeed-Hajaj, S., & Loureiro, G. S. (2022, March 11). Access to care and support during Covid-19. QMUL: Connecting During Covid-19, Research Briefing.

Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia (2019)
Book Chapter
Hammond, L. (2019). Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia. In F. Cheru, C. Cramer, & A. Oqubay (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (pp. 269-287). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198814986.013.14

Ethiopia’s borderlands are key sites of population mobility and migration. Not only do these areas host most of the 800,000 refugees who have entered Ethiopia from neighbouring countries, they also are home to populations whose movements are heavily... Read More about Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia.

Researching sex and sexualities (2018)
Book
C. Morris, P. Boyce, A. Cornwall, H. Frith, L. Harvey, & Y. Huang. (Eds.). (2018). Researching sex and sexualities. Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350222281

Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain – encompassing bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object therefore raises a number of important methodological questi... Read More about Researching sex and sexualities.

The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space (2017)
Book Chapter
Cornwall, A. (2017). The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space. In S. E. Alvarez, J. W. Rubin, M. Thayer, G. Baiocchi, & A. Laó-Montes (Eds.), Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America (pp. 63-80). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373353-004

Narratives of civil society participation often paint an overly rosy picture of engaged citizens enlivening democratic deliberation and democratizing decision-making. In this chapter, I draw on ethnographic research in a “new democratic space” in nor... Read More about The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space.

Women's empowerment: what works (2016)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A. (2016). Women's empowerment: what works. Journal of International Development, 28(3), 342-359. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3210

With radical roots in the 1980s, women’s empowerment is now a mainstream development concern. Much of the narrative focuses on instrumental gains—what women can do for development rather than what development can do for women. Empowerment is treated... Read More about Women's empowerment: what works.

From “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” to Global Justice: Reclaiming a Transformative Agenda for Gender and Development (2015)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A., & Rivas, A.-M. (2015). From “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” to Global Justice: Reclaiming a Transformative Agenda for Gender and Development. Third World Quarterly, 36(2), 396-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1013341

The language of “gender equality” and “women’s empowerment” was mobilised by feminists in the 1980s and 1990s as a way of getting women’s rights onto the international development agenda. Their efforts can be declared a resounding success. The intern... Read More about From “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” to Global Justice: Reclaiming a Transformative Agenda for Gender and Development.