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Development, inequality and change

Migration has fundamental implications for development and social change in destination and origin countries. We analyse how migration affects social, cultural and economic change as well as patterns of inequality. We focus on understanding why migration has more positive outcomes in some contexts, while more negative outcomes in others.

Migration has fundamental implications for development and social change in destination and origin countries. We analyse how migration affects social, cultural and economic change as well as patterns of inequality. We focus on understanding why migration has more positive outcomes in some contexts, while more negative outcomes in others. © Seier Seier
Favela da Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Projects within this theme

Improving the understanding of migration patterns within, to and from Africa over time. IMI is working with African researchers and universities across the continent to support research and build research capacity.
African Migrations Programme
Despite an unprecedented growth in international migration research, little has focused on migration from the perspective of developing countries. Understanding of migration patterns across large parts of Africa is particularly limited.
African Perspectives on Human Mobility
EUMAGINE: Imagining Europe from the Outside investigated the impact of perceptions of human rights and democracy on migration aspirations and decisions. Funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, the EUMAGINE project involved more than thirty researchers in seven countries who worked to understand how people in Morocco, Senegal, Turkey and Ukraine relate to the possibility of migration. Following the end of the project in 2013, its data is now available to interested researchers.
EUMAGINE data
A collaborative European research project aimed at investigating the impact of perceptions of human rights and democracy on migration aspirations and decisions.
EUMAGINE: Imagining Europe from the Outside
Understanding the role of welfare systems in destination and origin countries for migration patterns within and towards Europe
European welfare systems in times of mobility
Capturing everyday mobility drivers to better understand the complexity of human mobility dynamics in the Great Lakes region.
Mobility in the African Great Lakes
Contributing to understanding transnational migration, particularly by looking at the conditions for and effects of transnational migration, possibilities for the mobility of migrants’ rights to be enhanced, and the links between migration, citizenship, and migration and development.
Transnational migration, citizenship and the circulation of rights and responsibilities