Neglected intersections: a view from the South
(2025) Comparative Migration Studies — Vol. 13, n° 1, p. 1-18 (2025)
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Bastia, Tanja 
Walsham, Matthew
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- 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.
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Izaguirre Valdivieso, L. R., Bastia, T., Walsham, M., & Cortés, P. P. (2025). Neglected intersections: a view from the South. Comparative Migration Studies, 13(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00456-w (Original work published 2025)