Global Studies

This article examines migrants' self-reported experiences via application of human wellbeing approaches to deepen exploration of the barriers that migrants themselves identify in achieving their goals and getting their needs met. A focus on the construction of human wellbeing can potentially provide a more holistic approach to debates on international migration. Discussions have focused on labour market integration, paying less emphasis to migrants as social agents and the psychosocial elements that they consider important for achieving human wellbeing. This paper applies human wellbeing approaches to assess the barriers that Peruvian migrants identify in the contexts of London and Madrid.

In this article, I examine how human wellbeing is constructed transnationally. Whereas much attention has been paid to migrants based in the North, how the out-migration of kin affects the construction of human wellbeing of those living 'back home' remains little understood. Existing literature has tended to focus on the impact of financial remittances but the broader psychosocial impacts affecting human wellbeing outcomes have received less attention. In this article I suggest that this gap might be filled by adopting a human wellbeing approach to deepen understanding of what Peru-based immediate relatives and close friends regard as the benefits and challenges of this migration. By examining how human wellbeing is constructed across material, perceptual and relational domains, this approach offers greater holism in analysis. I also extend work on 'social remittances' by offering insights into the meanings that ensure that migration continues to be regarded in Peru as a livelihood improvement strategy worth pursuing. In an age of increasing global interconnectedness, deepening our understanding of transnational processes has become an important agenda for research. While the literature on migrant experiences has burgeoned in the context of international migration, there has been comparatively much less research on the experiences of those 'left behind'. The studies that do exist have tended to focus on economic dimensions such as the transformative potential of financial remittances sent by migrants to developing areas. These studies often suggest that relatives in the global economy are net winners. By contrast, research on the impacts of 'social remittances' (Levitt 1998) has received much less attention (Ginieniewicz 2009a; Tamagno 2002) and the few studies that do exist suggest that social remittances can have both positive and negative developmental impacts (Castles 2008: 274). The gaps in the existing literature on the impacts of international migration on the South are threefold. First, existing approaches have tended to focus on financial or social 'remittances' rather than exploring the construction of human wellbeing more broadly. Second, there is a need to go beyond externally identified categories to explore what Southern-based immediate relatives and close friends themselves consider to be the challenges and benefits of this migration and to what extent they feel that their constructions of human wellbeing have changed with the out-migration of kin. Third, little attention has been focused on the social meanings that immediate relatives and close friends ascribe to international migration processes. This article represents an attempt to fill the existing gaps in the literature via

Recent literature on international migrants employed in the lower echelons of the labour market in London (UK) has signalled the need to pay more attention to the resources that migrants deploy as well as greater holism in analysis. This article suggests that these gaps might be filled using a human wellbeing approach. It is argued that the key advantage of the human wellbeing concept is that it serves as an umbrella or unifying and holistic framework that brings together ideas from across a range of disciplines (economics, psychology, sociology) into a common space or conceptual frame, highlighting the complex interplay that exists between material, perceptual and relational dimensions. Application of a human wellbeing approach to the field of international migration has the potential to fill gaps in existing paradigms within migration studies such as transnationalism and multiculturalism. This article also speaks to debates on international migration and social policy. The research presented here applies a human wellbeing approach to the case of Peruvian migrants in London.

Research on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality has tended to focus on material transfers. This paper refocuses attention on the intersection of material and psychosocial transfers, which reveals temporal and gendered complexities. It examines three key ideas emerging from the life course literature (relationality, intersectionality and intergenerationality) to shed light on how these complexities might be addressed. It is argued that a human wellbeing lens is potentially useful as a unifying framework to integrate these ideas as it interrogates what living well means over the life course and how it is constructed relationally.

This policy arena investigates the impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis on poverty, migration and human well‐being. It uses a human well‐being lens to provide a framework for conceptualising a range of impacts that crosscut material and psychosocial domains. This review suggests a need to question the adequacy of existing migration policies aimed at 'managing migration' by measures such as stimulating return. It suggests that the global financial crisis requires a reframing of policy responses by moving beyond a focus on 'migration control' towards broader understandings of the poverty, international migration and human well‐being nexus. The 2008– 2009 global financial crisis, although largely unforeseen, is likely to have far reaching and multiple impacts worldwide. A phenomenon such as migration, which along with global trade represents part of the 'glue' by which an increasingly globalized world is held together, was always likely to be particularly affected by a crisis in the global economic system. However, in the context of migration, the impacts of global crisis are complex and differentiated. Not all countries have been affected in the same ways by migration, nor are migrants themselves or those that are 'left behind' homogenous groups. How adequate are existing paradigms and policy responses for understanding the post‐ 2008 global financial crisis situation in which we now explore mobilities and inequalities? How might adoption of a human well‐ being lens help conceptualise these impacts? This policy arena argues that the post‐ crisis context compels us to reframe existing policy responses in such a way that emphasises the dynamic linkages between poverty, international migration and human well‐ being. What is international migration and how have states normally responded to it? Until the end of the 1990s, it was common amongst policy‐ makers to consider underdevelopment as the primary cause of migration. The goal of migration and development policy under this paradigm was ' generally both to stimulate return of

This article examines migrants' self-reported experiences via application of human wellbeing approaches to deepen exploration of the barriers that migrants themselves identify in achieving their goals and getting their needs met. A focus on the construction of human wellbeing can potentially provide a more holistic approach to debates on international migration. Discussions have focused on labour market integration, paying less emphasis to migrants as social agents and the psychosocial elements that they consider important for achieving human wellbeing. This paper applies human wellbeing approaches to assess the barriers that Peruvian migrants identify in the contexts of London and Madrid.

The effects of counter-terrorism legislation on civil-society organisations (CSOs) based in the South have received little attention in the wider literature. This article reports on the findings of a series of international workshops to examine the effects of such legislation, held in Lebanon, the Kyrgyz Republic, India, the Netherlands, the UK, and the USA. The evidence presented at these workshops