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Circular migration: a triple win or a dead end?

‘Circular migration’ has recently been promoted as a triple win solution, bringing benefits to destination countries, origin countries and migrant workers themselves, thus projecting it as a major mechanism to reap development benefits of labour migration. This paper looks at definitions of circular migration, evidence of its incidence, and some practical examples of different circular migration systems in operation.

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How People Face Evictions: Lessons from people-led initiatives: Y. Cabannes / Development Planning Unit, University College London [UCL], 2010; Forced and market-driven evictions are increasing dramatically worldwide, with devastating effects on millions of children, women and men across the globe. Despite this negative trend, however, many p...
Activity Choices of Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees: Post-War Northern Uganda: T. Bruck / Households in Conflict Network , 2011; This paper studies the effect of living in an internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war northern Uganda. As the decision to relocate from a camp is voluntary, c...
Riverbank erosion displacees in Bangladesh: need for institutional response and policy intervention: 2011; Environmental refugees are one of the most burning issues at this time throughout the world. Bangladesh, a riverine country, is suffering from acquit riverbank erosion which compels millions of her po...
The refugee inflows to Tanzania led to a sharp decrease in poverty in the hosting community: J.F. Maystadt / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2011; The role of migration in reducing poverty in developing countries has been investigated mainly from the perspective of migrants and their relatives. This paper, however, reviews the way hosting hou...
Gender & Development special issue: migration: Oxfam, 2011; All over the world, individuals and families set out daily on a journey to a new life in a distant place. Some migration is undertaken with little or no choice - men, women and children fleeing in the...
Injustice on our plates: immigrant women in the U.S. food industry: M. Bauer / Southern Poverty Law Center , 2010; SPLC researchers interviewed approximately 150 women who are either currently undocumented or have spent time in the U.S. as undocumented immigrants. The women all have worked in the U.S. food industr...
Report of the WIDE annual conference 2010 - migration in the context of globalisation: women’s human rights at risk?: Women in Development Europe , 2011; Migration and globalisation are key issues for the women’s movement as they are having serious impacts on women’s lives and rights. Women from all corners of the globe including many repre...
Women who go, women who stay: reactions to climate change: J. Jungehülsing / Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2010; This study investigates the different ways in which women and men are affected by the impacts from climate change, and possible differences in the resulting migration strategies. An empirical study wa...
Protecting Bangladesh's migrant labourers: T. Siddiqui;M. Farah / Institute of Informatics and Development, 2012; This 4th edition of the Protifolon series sheds light on important reforms and actions concerning labour migration from Bangladesh. It is clear that the government has undertaken serious reforms in ce...
Social networking a powerful new tool for diaspora research: J. Crush;C. Eberhardt;M. Caesar / Southern African Migration Project , 2011; The recent focus on diasporas by policy-makers and researchers has highlighted the rich potential of migrants as a force for shaping development activities in their countries of origin. This paper des...