- Environmental disasters destroy livelihoods in Bangladesh, causing mass migration to India
- S. Alam / Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003
- Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. Such movement of population in the ...
- Views on aid, institutions and globalisations from World Bank conference
- Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004
- This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway. The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general ove...
- Can the Indian diaspora in the United State play the role of facilitator between New Delhi and Washington?
- A. Gupta / Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004
- As the Indian diaspora has begun to assert its financial and political power in the United States since the 1990’s, the Indian government has been developing a process of granting dual-citizenship to certain persons of Indian ori...
- Understanding old age and poverty in South Africa
- Julian May / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- South Africa has one of Africa’s most rapidly ageing populations. Of those aged 50 or over, 25% are chronically poor. Compelled to continue productive and reproductive activities well into old age, the older poor fulfil an import...
- Managing migration optimally for the benefit of all
- P. Martin / Copenhagen Consensus, 2004
- Many countries receiving migrants are attempting to manage immigration by discouraging potential migrants through tighter controls and restrictions of benefits. This paper argues that this is not an optimal solution. Rather, the overa...
- Migration too complex for pure environment argument
- F. Flintan / Engendering Eden, Cork, 2001
- This paper assesses the relevancy of the concept of 'environmental refugees'. It begins by defining the term and discussing the four main causes of environmental migration: human-induced environmental change en...
- Non-contributory pensions – costly luxury or weapon against poverty?
- Armando Barrientos / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Although the incidence of old age poverty in developing countries is high and set to increase further there is considerable resistance to establishing non-contributory pension programmes. It is often argued that they are unaffordable,...
- Finding correlations between international migration, remittances and poverty reduction
- R.H. Adams; J. Page / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003
- This paper examines the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries. It constructs a new data set on poverty, international migration, and remittances for 74 low- and m...
- Online mobilization and publishing for African civil society
- S. Niombo / Information Technology and International Cooperation Programme, SSRC, 2003
- African civil society organizations have begun slowly to appropriate the Internet. Some of them have experienced on line mobilization and publishing. What are the challenges they meet in disseminating information through Internet ? Wh...
- Main characteristics of labour migration in Asia
- International Organization for Migration, 2003
- This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances. It presents a compendium of labour migration p...
- Protecting the rights of migrant labourers in Asia
- P. Wickramasekera / International Labour Organization, 2001
- In this paper the author examines the trends and issues in Asian labour migration and challenges faced by countries and the trade union movement in the protection of migrant workers. The author first discusses problems with cur...
- Migration and the 'brain drain': an analysis of the policy issues
- D. Ellerman / World Bank, 2003
- This paper reports on a survey and analysis of migration issues and the related development policies for the sending countries. North-north migration (between industrial countries), south-south migration (between or within deve...
- Investing the causes behind skilled migration in Zimbabwe
- D. S. Tevera; J. Crush / Southern African Migration Project, 2003
- The brain drain has been labelled as one of the greatest development challenges facing African countries, and in Zimbabwe all the signs point to the existence of a growing exodus of skilled workers from the country. So what are the tr...
- How the 'brain drain' support the formation of human capital
- O. Stark / Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2003
- This paper addresses the concerns voiced by the World Development Report about the exodus of trained workers from poorer countries. It turns this concern on its head and argues that the prospect of migration can well be harnessed to i...
- Is money being sent back home equating to overseas development assistance (ODA) for Sri Lanka?
- D. Sriskandarajah / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002
- Sri Lanka has been the source of large numbers of migrants and the recipient of much development assistance, but what is the nature and extent of the links between development assistance and migration flows in the country? This paper ...
- Migration and migrants: trends, profiles and attitudes in Zimbabwe
- D. Tevera; L. Zinyama / Southern African Migration Project, 2002
- What are the characteristics of migration into and out of Zimbabwe, and are they changing? This paper contains an overview of the major migration trends in Zimbabwe since independence, and presents the results of two national surveys ...
- Emigration and immigration: the South African figures
- J-B. Meyer; M. Brown; D. Kaplan / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2000
- What are the true dimensions of migration and the brain drain in South Africa? The accuracy of the official statistics on the extent of emigration from South Africa, particularly skilled people, has been increasingly questioned by jou...
- Circulation or convection? Following the flow of health workers along the hierarchy of wealth
- A. Padarath; C. Chamberlain; D. McCoy; A. Ntuli; M. Rowson; R. Loewenson / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2003
- Considering the effects of maldistribution and the brain drain are having on the foundation of skilled human resources, how can healthcare systems function adequately and effectively in Southern Africa ? This discussion paper, comissi...
- Displaced priorities? The Three Gorges resettlement programme
- Shawn Steil; Duan Yuefang / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The Three Gorges Project on China’s Yangtze River is as controversial as it is massive. The largest development-induced displacement project in the world, it will see the resettlement of 1.2 million people by 2009. What recent p...
- Victims of progress: resettling people displaced by development
- David Turton; Chris de Wet / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Infrastructure development projects annually displace over ten million people. Dams, mines, urban renewal projects, water and sewage pipelines, roads and railways all lead to the loss of residence and livelihoods. Do the resettlement ...
- Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM)
- The CEDEM is an interfaculty centre which aims to carry out theoretical and empirical research in the fields of human migrations, ethnic relations and racism. Among others, the Centre is interested in the relations between migration processes and uneven development. These researches are led in a pluri-disciplinary perspective: political science, sociology, anthropology, international relations, la...
- Institute for Human Security
- Based at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, the Institute for Human Security is a new university-wide institute, which endeavours to further interdisciplinary research on all aspects related to human security as defined by the United Nations and encourages an ongoing dialogue between academia, development agencies and policy makers.
- Research and Advocacy Unit [RAU] (RAU)
- The Research and Advocacy Unit [RAU] is an independent, non-governmental organisation. Its Mission is to provide high-quality research for the purposes of relevant and current policy change. RAU is run by a Management Committee composed of experienced researchers and advocacy experts.RAU’s work to date has focused on three major areas that are important in the current crisis in Zimbabwe: Wom...
- African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS)
- The ACMS is an independent, interdisciplinary and internationally engaged Africa-based centre of excellence for research and teaching that shapes global discourse on human mobility, development and social transformation.
- INFOCON
- INFOCON aims to promote a better understanding of how Civil Society Organisations representing Transnational Communities can work on preventing and resolving conflicts in Europe and worldwide. Financed by the EU under the Seventh Framework Programme, this three-year research project was launched in April 2008.
- December 18
- Migration advocacy organisation
- The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG)
- Te Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) is a multidisciplinary research centre on ageing at NUI Galway. ICSG focuses on research, education and training in the field of social gerontology in Ireland and internationally. There is a specific research focus on rural gerontology, the economics of ageing and on technology and ageing.
- Caritas Europa
- Caritas Europa brings together 48 organisations that are active in 44 European countries. It is one of the seven regions of Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations. Caritas Europa focuses its activities on issues related to poverty and social inequality, migration and asylum within all countries of Europe, humanitari...
- The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) (CoRMSA)
Strengthening partnerships between refugee and migrant service providers
- UN global initiative to fight trafficking
- Fighting human trafficking
