- 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 threaten the interests of the develop...
- 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 ...
- Palestinian livelihoods in Egypt
- Oroub Al Abed / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Palestinians, numbering over eight million around the world, are known among other diaspora communities for their ability to sustain their livelihoods. Palestinians in Egypt are currently employed in a wide range of professions, among...
- 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 Unit at the University of Sussex, in ...
- 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 track where people were moving, a...
- 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 different ways in which rural people ...
- 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 large-scale dam, infrastructure and ...
- Dispossession and disempowerment: the impact of migrants in Zimbabwe’s Zambezi valley
- Vupenya Dzingirai / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Migration studies in southern Africa have looked in detail at the history and politics of movements of people to frontier zones. But have they paid enough attention to the impact on indigenous inhabitants? Are migrants really the agen...
- Gendering migration: maternal mobility across the rural-urban divide in Kenya
- C.S. Molyneux; V. Mungala-Odera; T. Harpham / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Do policy-makers know enough about the lives of migrant mothers? Do they understand the mobility patterns, rural-urban linkages and household structures of women who combine urban life with strong attachments and visits to rural areas...
- Dams, displacement and the disaffected in India
- Manthan,; K. Ghosh; R. Kumar / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The displacement of peoples from areas where two large dams are being constructed under the Subarnarekha Multi-purpose Project (SMP),is the focus for this paper. Different organisations directed/are directing the movements in these tw...
- Remittances from migrants more important than aid
- P. Gammeltoft / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002
- This paper examines the flows of migrants' remittances in relation to other financial flows to developing countries. Since remittances by unofficial channels by all estimates are significant, the remittance amounts reported here are q...
- Altering the GATS framework to facilitate the temporary movement of labour
- R. Chanda / Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 1999
- This paper examines constraints on temporary movement of labour and proposes ways to strengthen and broaden the overall GATS framework in this area of trade in services. It proposes the introduction of multilateral guidelines f...
- The political economy of formal sector pay and employment in developing countries
- Arup Banerji; J. Edgardo Campos; Richard H. Sabot / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Policymakers concerned about migration to high income countries must take into account the political economy of the labor market. Labor market pathologies, like macroeconomic mismanagement, can be extremely costly severely constrainin...
- Achievements and recommendations for GATS
- M. Mashayekhi / South Centre, 2000
- This working paper examines the issues related to the on-going WTO negotiations on trade in services, and their implications for developing countries. The major achievement of the Uruguay Round was to formulate an agreement on ...
- South Africa's new immigration policy is "discrimination by default"
- B. Dodson / Southern African Migration Project, 2001
- This paper draws attention to the need for a gender analysis of the South African government’s proposed new policy on international migration, by identifying a number of areas of implicit gender discrimination. Such “discrim...
- How are issues of refugees, poverty and real development interlinked?
- P. Beaucage / Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, 2000
- This presentation pursues two areas of reflection concerning the limitations of development strategies, both of which result from observations of armed conflicts: one is what happens to refugees, displaced persons and the diaspora (in...
- Displacement, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Reparation and Development [as a result of dams]
- World Commission on Dams, 2000
- Reviews recent practices relating to displacement, resettlement, rehabilitation and development of people negatively affected by the construction of dams, in order to locate the global experiences in dam induced displacement and under...
- Losing our minds: skills migration and the 'brain drain' from South Africa
- J. Crush; D. McDonald; V. Williams; R. Mattes; W. Richmond; C.M. Rogerson; J.M. Rogerson / Southern African Migration Project, 2000
- The brain drain from South Africa is unlikely to slow over the next decade, and that black South Africans are as likely to leave as white South Africans. Is it possible that skills emigration is being offset by a proactive immigration...
- The contributions of migration for poor households
- A. Haan / Department for International Development, UK, 2000
- Aims to inform development policy debates with an improved understanding of migration. The paper starts from the idea that these debates pay too little attention to the contribution of migration to poverty reduction: policies tend to ...
- 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
