Mobility as a driver for human development: A critical analysis of Peruvian low-skilled labour mobility in Rio de Janeiro in the context of global sports events.

This research project analyses the drivers, dynamics and human development outcomes of recent Peruvian low-skilled labour mobility in Rio de Janeiro in the context of the global sports events in Brazil; the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It examines within a broader framework of local, national and regional migration and development processes and policies in general and the world sporting events in particular, the extent to which this geographical mobility is leading to economic, social, or cultural mobility among migrants and their (transnational) families. This project is a critical case study that draws on local-to-global perspectives and deploys a mixed-method approach, combining ethnographic fieldwork (direct and participation observation and in-depth interviews), semistructured interviews with key stakeholders and a broader contextual analysis based on secondary data. By focusing on South-South  movements, emerging destinations, low-skilled labour mobility and well-being of migrants and families, in South America in general and from Peru to Brazil in particular, this research project will provide innovative empirical and conceptual contributions to the mobility-development nexus in the fields of anthropology and social sciences at large, and will lead to novel insights into mobility and development effects of large-scale sporting events in emerging countries, a research field that remains unexplored.