Oliver Bakewell

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the complex relationship between structure and agency and the way it has been incorporated into migration theory and argue that attempts to develop a coherent and robust body of migration theory have been thwarted by a structure-agency impasse.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the current initiatives to link migration and development will remain fundamentally flawed until the concept of development is reconceptualised for a mobile world and call for the reconsideration of the ideas of the good life envisaged in development initiatives, moving beyond models of development based on the nation-state and abandoning the paternalist paradigms that fail to recogni cation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider key drivers of migration and explore different ways that they may be exploited in the future of human migration and the perpetuation of migration, and propose different ways to exploit them.

TL;DR: It is concluded that development studies must adapt to a very different context from when the field emerged in the mid-20th century, by examining the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic across four themes: global value chains, digitalisation, debt, and climate change.