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Neglected intersections: a view from the South

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: While the integration of an intersectional perspective marks a significant advance in gender and migration literature over recent decades, this scholarship remains heavily dominated by studies focusing on South-North migration. Consequently, despite growing attention to gender within South-South migration from both researchers and policy-makers, key research areas applying an intersectional lens remain neglected. In this paper, we identify three such areas that remain significantly under-explored in South-South migration research: sexuality, disability, and ageing. We argue that migration scholarship in general, and gender and migration scholarship in particular, need to urgently move to encompass all types of migrations, including regional, South-South migration, as well as broaden the languages of the publications that are taken into account in the mainstream gender and migration literature. In this article, we put forward a framework for advancing the research agenda on intersectionality in South-South migration, one which departs from the common focus on English-speaking countries and publications. We take a first step towards implementing this approach by including publications in Spanish and Portuguese.

Source: Comparative Migration Studies

DOI: 10.1186/s40878-025-00456-w

Authors: Lorena Izaguirre, Tanja Bastia, Matthew Walsham, Pedro Pablo Cortés

Institutions: Fund for Scientific Research, UCLouvain, University of Manchester, Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Health, and Social Inequality

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,490