DIIS seminar: Næste stop Dubai – Migration i det globale Syd

The global migration landscape is changing. One of the significant characteristics in contemporary migration is that as many migrants move within the Global South as to the Global North.

Likewise, the majority of migrants from the Global South now move outside their region of origin.

Destinations like China, Brazil, and Dubai attract migrants from all over the world, whereas European and North American destinations gradually seem to lose their force of attraction.

New trends of mobility within and to the Global South need to be seen in the context of more general transitions to a new multipolar world order.

Emerging economies offer new opportunities while entry into the Global North has become highly restricted for most migrants, except selected groups of highly skilled professionals.

In consequence, many migrants search for more promising opportunities in other geographical areas.

In this seminar, Michaela Pelican, Assistant Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, discusses contemporary African migration within a multipolar world order.

She takes departure in an emerging scholarship on new geographical destinations in South-South migration as well as her own research on Cameroonian migration within Africa and to the Gulf States.

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