Anthropology › Section J · Human migration › Topic J.4
Inequality along the margins
Most migrants move by choice and safely, but the risks of migration fall hardest on people with the fewest options. Anthropologists follow migrants along routes, into camps and onto farms to show how borders, laws and labour markets turn movement into inequality.
In this topic
- Migration today
- Four kinds of contemporary migration
- Refugees, asylum seekers and the displaced
- Disasters and a changing climate
- Circular migration, chains and remittances
- Worked example: reading displacement figures
- The Land of Open Graves
- Worked example: tracing a policy's effects
- Refugees beyond the camp
- Migrant workers at the bottom
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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