This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an analysis of social relations and processes of exclusion, and the...

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Preface / David Francis, Imraan Valodia and Edward Webster -- Towards a southern approach to inequality : inequality studies in South Africa and the Global South / Edward Webster, Imraan Valodia and David Francis -- Is hierarchy the same as inequality? / Dilip Menon -- Inequality under...