Migration
- Making migration work for development
- This DRC report is a summary of six years of investigation into migration policy and practice. Its findings indicate that, for migration to have its full developmental impact, the most beneficial policy change would be to reduce barriers to migration at all levels.
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- Strategies for survival: the dynamics of livelihood diversity in Mali and Ethiopia
- ( Camilla Toulmin;Rebecca Leonard;Karen Brock;Ngolo Coulibaly;Grace Carswell;Data Dea / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- For rural families everywhere, reliance on income from farming has never been enough. A diverse range of jobs, markets and skills is often the only way to make ends meet. For the poorest, the right to...
- The rise of the environmental refugee: nightmare in the making?
- ( Stephen Castles / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- Is environmental degradation set to create new waves of displaced people seeking asylum in the north? Will refugee camps and shantytowns foster civil disorder, pandemics and political extremism to thr...
- Don't fence them in. Quest for sustainable livelihoods keeps millions on the move
- ( Arjan de Haan / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- Why do so many people in developing countries leave their homes and travel long distances to make a living? This puzzle prompted studies recently reported on by researchers at the Poverty Research Uni...
- Rights for the world's evicted. Are development projects harming people they're meant to help?
- ( Theodore E. Downing / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- In the current decade, 10 million people a year have been displaced (forced to move) by development projects intended to improve their lives. The evidence is clear that such displacement, caused by la...
- Realities of leaving. Why people are moving out of Zambia's troubled South
- ( J. Copestake / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- The nature and causes of migration in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are still poorly understood. University of Bath researchers surveyed two neighbouring yet contrasting areas of southern Zambia to...
- Timelines: how rural livelihoods are evolving in Nepal and India
- ( P. Blaikie;D. Seddon / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- How do the ways in which rural people make a living change over time? Ongoing studies by University of East Anglia researchers along with partner organisations in India and Nepal, are tracking the di...
- Migration in Vietnam: driven by the state or the market?
- ( Heather Xiaoquan Zhang;P. Mick Kelly;Catherine Locke / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- Are migration studies premised on a false ideological bias? Is the operation of a free market the engine of migration? What have we learned about the linkages between migration and development? How do...
- Not giving a damn: private financiers and dam displacement
- ( Jason Stanley / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- During the last fifty years, between 30 and 80 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods through dam construction. In the wake of fiscal crises and changing donor priorities governments are...
- Harnessing the investment potential of migrants remittances: the importance of family ties
- ( Richmond Tiemoko / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2003)
- Family ties are key to securing valuable remittances and financial investment from migrants to their home countries. Although migrants who maintain close family ties frequently send money back home, t...
- Squeezing out poor farmers: understanding the constraints and benefits of urban proximity
- ( Mahmoud Bah;Salmana Cissé;Gouro Diallo;Bitrina Diyamett;Fred Lerise;David Okali;Enoch Okpara;Janice Olawoye;Cecilia Tacoli / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2003)
- What are the factors underlying current transformation in rural-urban linkages in sub- Saharan Africa? How are livelihood strategies and farming systems changing under the impact of urban expansion? W...
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