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Unraveling the Interplay of Poverty and Migration

We are delighted to share the highlights of the Poverty and Migration Webinar, hosted by Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) on June 2, 2023. This enlightening event brought together distinguished speakers who shared their expertise on various dimensions of the intricate relationship between poverty and migration. This post provides a summary of the webinar’s key discussions and encourages readers to access the recording to deepen their understanding of this pressing global issue.

Session 1

Dr. Teresita Cruz Del Rosario kicked off the webinar with her presentation on “Migrating out of Poverty.” Her talk examined the transformative potential of migration as a strategy for poverty alleviation. Dr. Del Rosario discussed the complex motivations behind migration, the challenges faced by individuals and communities in poverty-stricken areas, especially in Eastern Asia, and the opportunities that migration can provide for improved livelihoods. Her insightful analysis shed light on the diverse pathways through which migration can contribute to escaping poverty.

Dr. Nita Mishra, a respected scholar in migration studies, presented on “Students Making Sense of Migration & Poverty.” Her presentation highlighted the pivotal role of education in fostering an understanding of the intertwined nature of migration and poverty. Dr. Mishra emphasized the importance of equipping students with critical thinking skills to analyze the socio-economic factors driving migration and perpetuating poverty. Her talk underscored the significance of empowering the younger generation to become active agents of change in tackling these complex issues. She was also joined by her student, Evelina Mikneviciute, who spoke on her personal experience of migration and poverty, as well as the process of learning through the migration project in Dr. Mishra’s class.

Session 2

In the  second session of the webinar, Dr. Catherine Wihtol de Wenden offered valuable insights on “The Structural Factors of Mobility for International Migrants.” Her presentation explored the underlying structural factors that influence migration patterns on a global scale. Dr. Wihtol de Wenden delved into the complex interplay of political, economic, and social forces shaping mobility for international migrants. Her comprehensive analysis underscored the need to consider these structural factors when formulating policies and interventions to address the challenges faced by migrants and to foster inclusive and sustainable development.

Dr. Joseph A. Yaro: Migrating from Poverty to Opportunity Dr. Joseph A. Yaro concluded the webinar with his talk on “Migrating from Poverty to Opportunity.” He offered a thought-provoking discussion on the journey of migrants who seek to transcend poverty and seize opportunities for socioeconomic advancement. Dr. Yaro shared insights from his research, highlighting successful cases and identifying key factors that contribute to positive migration outcomes. His presentation provided a framework for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to develop context-specific strategies that empower migrants to escape poverty and realize their full potential.

The Poverty and Migration Webinar 2023 provided a platform for leading experts to engage in insightful discussions on the complex relationship between poverty and migration. The presentations by Dr. Teresita Cruz Del Rosario, Dr. Nita Mishra, Dr. Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, and Dr. Joseph A. Yaro illuminated various facets of this multidimensional issue. We encourage all interested individuals to watch the recording of the webinar below to gain a deeper understanding of the topics explored and to contribute to ongoing efforts in addressing poverty and migration. Together, let us strive for a world where no one is left behind.

Dr. Teresita Cruz Del Rosario

Dr. Nita Mishra

Dr. Joseph A. Yaro

Dr. Catherine Wihtol de Wenden

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Democracy In All Policies

In small communities, civic and democratic practices are already evident in everyday habits, customs, therefore behavior-change interventions in such places must include them.

-Mihai Lupu

EduCab

Mihai Lupu is an ASAP board  member and the founder of EduCab.  His academic and practical focus is on harnessing the potential of various organizations, such as public libraries and community centers, within small to medium-sized communities to initiate, curate, and foster critical thinking-based knowledge, democratic practices, and exposure to diversity-focused contexts that contribute to enhancing community-oriented and civic engagement practices worldwide. 

Through his work, Mihai demonstrates that in small communities, civic and democratic practices are already evident in everyday habits, customs and therefore behavior-change interventions in such places must include them.

He calls these practices small-scale democracies, and he emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and also acting on the democracy distance, which refers to the gap between established democratic narratives and practices and citizens’ understanding of their local customs and practices as essentially democratic instances with civic value.

To facilitate this understanding, Mihai breaks down the concept of democracy into smaller units of indices and indicators that can make more sense for citizens in villages and small towns.

He demonstrates that such indices and indicators are easier to be regarded as having democratic value to people, if they are seen with their relevance into day-to-day actions and experiences, while providing a wider range of space for specific interactions at the local level, tackled by anchor institutions like public libraries. Additionally, Mihai expands the concept of community beyond the classic territorial approach and diasporas to include all those who contribute to and are connected to these communities.

Throughout his work on this topic, Mihai draws on academic and non-academic literature to open discussions with new questions and ways of tackling his ideas. He also uses various examples of interventions and results achieved through the EduCaB program and methodology, which he founded and continues to implement in over 400 communities worldwide, while relating them to existing practices and approaches.

…a library can promote democratic practices and the overall experience of democracy while capitalizing on existing resources. 

Mihaita Lupu

Libraries are seen as miniature Agoras, contributing to the larger scale Agora by improving citizens’ well-being and quality of life through the way they relate to themselves and to each other. The questions and examples presented in his research aim to start a larger conversation among those who care about reviving communities and democratic practices in small communities, asking how much we do not use from what democracies can offer right now and how much a library can do to promote democratic practices and the overall experience of democracy while capitalizing on existing resources. 

Since this exercise it’s just at the beginning, the larger scope being to capture the potential of all core local institutions and stakeholders to translate indicators of democracy into specific actions easily recognizable by citizens, he names his approach ‘Democracy within all policies’, this being an EduCaB concept and program, developed in partnership with Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), Yale Global Justice Program, Kettering Foundation, Periphery Inc. and the network of public libraries and community centers supported through EduCaB.

Mihai Lupu

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Transforming Africa’s Food Systems Webinar

Jesuit Justice Ecology Network Africa (JENA) in collaboration with Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), and Global Justice Program, Yale University organized a webinar themed, “Transforming Africa’s Food System towards Poverty Eradication”, drawing insights from a rich pool of experts across the globe.

The webinar was held on December 7, 2022, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm East African Time. The webinar drew from the urgent need to reform the current food system to adhere to the present realities as the world works towards transitioning into sustainable food systems. The themes of the webinar and points of discussion captured the reality in most parts of the African continent and other parts of the globe coming to times with social and economic challenges.

The goal of the webinar and theme was to collate and share insights believed integral in driving the food security agenda in the face of growing development challenges likely to stem past successes and progress towards creating sustainable food systems that meets the needs of the region. The full report can be obtained by clicking here

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2022 Journal ASAP Nominations

Starting this year, Journal ASAP will confer three annual awards for poverty-focused academic work – all with nomination deadlines of 31 July 2023.

  1. An ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.
  2. An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject, published in 2022 and written by a single author or group of authors.
  3. An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best collection of poverty-related essays by different authors published in 2022.

Eligible work may contribute to the definition, description, explanation, assessment or eradication of poverty and attend to any of the special challenges poor people face in regard to nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.

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Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.

Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain:

  • one page of biodata of the nominee, including educational background, positions held, affiations, honors and awards
  • two pages on the nominee’s contributions to the understanding and eradication of poverty
  • names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees.

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Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject written by a single author or group of authors and published in 2022.

Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain:

  • a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is beginning to have an influence
  • a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only);
  • names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.

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Book of the Year Award for the best collection of essays by different authors on a poverty-related subject and published in 2022.

Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain:

  • a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is begining to have an influence
  • a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only);
  • names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.

Award winner will be announced at the next Yale Global Justice Program Annual Conference, autumn 2023. Winning books will be reviewed by Journal ASAP and promoted through ASAP Social Media and the ASAP Newsletter.

Partnering in sponsoring this competition, Springer Nature will award its winners books of their choice from Springer’s Sustainable Development Goals Series.
 

To send a nomination or for any questions or comments, contact Michal Apollo at editor@journalasap.org.

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A Word from the ASAP President

In 2022, Academics Stand Against Poverty inaugurated the Ambedkar Grants for Advancing Poverty Eradication (AGAPE), providing competitive funding and mentoring for innovative pilot projects in severe poverty eradication with strong prospects of cost-effective scale-up. The first four grants have been made, and a new round of AGAPE grant funding for 2023 was announced. 

In partnership with Global Financial Integrity, ASAP also selected and honored the winners of the Ninth Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition on illicit financial outflows from poor countries – while announcing the Tenth Competition and publishing the winning essays
of the Eighth in Journal ASAP.

ASAP continues to work closely with Yale’s Global Justice Program on various fronts. One key idea is to incentivize the development and deployment of innovations through publicly funded impact rewards rather than patent-based monopoly rents. This option is needed especially in the domains of green and health technologies. Impact rewards would take account of the third-party effects of innovations, make beneficial innovations much more affordable, and draw R&D efforts to the specific needs of the poor. In partnership with JENA and AHETI in Africa, and RIS in India, we have been pushing this idea at the T7 and T20 as well as at COP27.

Another joint effort is focused on the 42% of humanity who cannot afford a healthy diet – a horrendous silent catastrophe that is widely ignored, with a large percentage of global food production wasted or converted to biofuels.

2022 saw the retirement of Helen Lang as ASAP’s Global Coordinator and Helen Yanacopulos as Secretary of the ASAP Board with our gratitude for their great contributions over many years. We welcome Zeke Ngcobo as our new Global Coordinator and plan to add one or two Board Members soon.

Academics Stand Against Poverty is still more wish than reality. But if even just one in a thousand scholars and educators were actively to join us, we would stand a real chance to achieve at least that small shift in the global distribution needed to end the more severe forms of poverty.

Thank You.

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Journal ASAP – Poverty-Focused Academic Awards

Starting this year, Journal ASAP will confer three annual awards for poverty-focused academic work – all with nomination deadlines of 16 October 2022.

An ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.

An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject, published in 2021 and written by a single author or group of authors.

An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best collection of poverty-related essays by different authors published in 2021.

Book of 2021 Award

Eligible work may contribute to the definition, description, explanation, assessment or eradication of poverty and attend to any of the special challenges poor people face in regard to nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.

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Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.

Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain: 1) one page of biodata of the nominee, including educational background, positions held, affiations, honors and awards; 2) two pages on the nominee’s contributions to the understanding and eradication of poverty; and 3) names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees.

*

Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject written by a single author or group of authors and published in 2021.

Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain: 1) a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is begining to have an influence; 2) a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only); and 3) names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.

*

Book of the Year Award for the best collection of essays by different authors on a poverty-related subject and published in 2021.

Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain: 1) a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is begining to have an influence; 2) a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only); and 3) names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.

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Award winner will be announced at the next Yale Global Justice Program Annual Conference, 10-13 November 2022. Winning books will be reviewed by Journal ASAP and promoted through ASAP Social Media and the ASAP Newsletter.

To send a nomination or for any questions or comments, contact Michal Apollo at SIeditor@journalasap.org.

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Call for Papers: A human-centered approach to health innovations

Global Justice Program, Yale

As the COVID-19 pandemic and global health exigencies show, many important vaccines, treatments, diagnostics, and other health technologies remain unaffordable or inaccessible to millions of people, many of whom suffer or die as a result.

We invite activists, academics, policymakers, industry representatives, and health professionals to contribute to an edited open-access volume advancing a human-centered approach to health innovations.

Contributors will be invited to present their draft essays at a hybrid workshop in New Haven, October 28-30, 2022.

For further details see globaljustice/yale/edu/hca

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Ambedkar Grants for Advancing Poverty Eradication, Funding Opportunity

AGAPE is an initiative by Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) to fund promising projects that will pilot innovative approaches to poverty eradication.

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2022 Global Justice Programme and ASAP

\”Technology & Justice\”

An exciting yet insightful and informative conference, in collaboration with ASAP, Yale University, the Global Justice Program, and Quinnipiac University took place over a span of three days. Many of the panel sessions centered around themes associated with technology, justice, and the use of artificial intelligence were discussed.

Our very own ASAP session hosted a number of ASAP members as speakers. We look forward to our next annual conference where we welcome and encourage all our members to share their projects and published papers.

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Roundtable – “Global Response to crisis: sustainability, SDGs, and climate change”, 27th April, 4pm (BST)

Juris North ASAP Roundtables 2022

Aims:

  • To critically assess local, regional and/or global law and policy that have to do with sustainability and its crossover with a specific thematic area.
  • To explore different stakeholder views on a range of sustainability-related topics.
  • To seek international perspectives and exchanges about a range of sustainability-related topics and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.

Final Target:

National and international legal and political orders around the world.

Lead by:

Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School

Dr Rita G. Klapper, Manchester Business School

Thematic areas:

  • Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (practice and education): led by Dr Rita G. Klapper (UK and international).
  • Gender: Led by Dr Kay Lalor (UK) and Dr Natalina Stamile (Italy)
  • Access to rights: Lea by Dr Jorge E. Núñez (UK and Latin America)
  • Poverty, Sovereignty and Economic Rights: Led by Dr Clarice Seixas Duarte (Brazil)
  • Climate change: Led by Dr Danielle Denny (Brazil)

Roundtable 1, Wednesday 27th April 2022 at 4pm BST

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Seb Carney, Head of Environment, Social, Governance, and Sustainability, Daisy Group

Thierry Roussin, CEO, AguiaLabs

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About this event

Juris North ASAP Roundtables 2022

“Global Response to crisis: sustainability, SDGs and climate change”

Aims:

. To critically assess local, regional and/or global law and policy that have to do with sustainability and its crossover with a specific thematic area.

. To explore different stakeholder views on a range of sustainability-related topics.

. To seek international perspectives and exchanges about a range of sustainability-related topics and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.

Final Target:

National and international legal and political orders around the world.

Lead by:

Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School

Dr Rita G. Klapper, Manchester Business School

Thematic areas:

• Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (practice and education): lead by Dr Rita G. Klapper (UK and international).

. Gender: Lead by Dr Kay Lalor (UK) and Dr Natalina Stamile (Italy)

• Access to rights: Lead by Dr Jorge E. Núñez (UK and Latin America)

• Poverty, Sovereignty and Economic Rights: Lead by Dr Clarice Seixas Duarte (Brazil)

• Climate change: Lead by Dr Danielle Denny (Brazil)

Hosts

Dr Rita Klapper, Reader in Enterprise and Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez, PhD in Law (University of Manchester, UK)