Labour migration
- What incentives should be in place to retain Swaziland's health workers?
- S. Masango; K. Gathu; S. Sibandze / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2008
- This country study maps and assesses incentives for retaining heath workers, particularly non-financial incentives. It explores existing policies, their relevance to current factors driving exit and retention, and propo...
- Livelihoods issues in rural-urban migration in Afghanistan
- A. Opel / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005
- This report analyses internal labour migration in Afghanistan. It aims to uncover the reasons for and patterns of rural to urban labour migration as part of household livelihood strategies and risk management. Almost a thousand people...
- Rethinking immigration policy in South Africa
- S. Johnson (ed); A. Bernstein (ed) / Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa, 2007
- South Africa suffers from a serious shortage of skilled people. This is a major constraint on the prospects of achieving the kind of sustained economic growth that will reduce poverty and open the way for much wider participation in t...
- Well being analysis of migrants from Latin America and Caribbean to the EU
- K. Wright-Revolledo / International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007
- International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU is important but has received relatively little attention and needs to be better understood. This paper provides a wellbeing analysis of international migrat...
- Stories and learning from alliance-based efforts to improve employment standards for women workers
- D. Dalton / Oxfam, 2007
- Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multipl...
- Mexico's narrow demographic window of opportunity
- American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2008
- Mexico is in the midst of an unprecedented demographic transition that is changing the size and age structure of its population Over the past three decades, lower mortality rates and higher life expectancies have been coupled wi...
- The impacts of livelihood dynamics in three fruit-growing settlements Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
- X.T. Hoang; T.P. Dinh; T.H. Nguyen / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- This article discusses the reasons and implications of the decline in poverty rate among fruit farmers in the rural Mekong Delta, as compared to all other rural households in the region and in Vietnam. This decline happened despite hu...
- Circular migration in the South Mediterranean
- J. Cassarino / European University Institute, Italy, 2008
- People moving across borders may, through their mobility, be involved in a form of back and forth movement between their places of origin and of destination. Because of their repeated and fluid cross-border mobility they are circular ...
- Evaluating circular migration
- K. Newland; D.R. Agunias; A. Terrazas / Migration Policy Institute, 2008
- Circular migration is a continuing, long-term and fluid pattern of international mobility of people among countries that occupy what is now increasingly recognised as a single economic space. At its best, circular migration increases ...
- Indian men employed in London's hospitality sector
- A. Batnitzky; L. Mcdowell; S. Dyer / School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2008
- The migration of middle-class Indian men working in the hospitality sector in west London illustrates the intersection of gender and social class in organising both who migrates and what types of labour they consequently perform. In t...
- Livelihoods issues in rural-urban migration in Afghanistan
- A. Opel / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005
- This report analyses internal labour migration in Afghanistan. It aims to uncover the reasons for and patterns of rural to urban labour migration as part of household livelihood strategies and risk management. Almost a thousand people...
- Rethinking immigration policy in South Africa
- S. Johnson (ed); A. Bernstein (ed) / Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa, 2007
- South Africa suffers from a serious shortage of skilled people. This is a major constraint on the prospects of achieving the kind of sustained economic growth that will reduce poverty and open the way for much wider participation in t...
- Well being analysis of migrants from Latin America and Caribbean to the EU
- K. Wright-Revolledo / International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007
- International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU is important but has received relatively little attention and needs to be better understood. This paper provides a wellbeing analysis of international migrat...
- Stories and learning from alliance-based efforts to improve employment standards for women workers
- D. Dalton / Oxfam, 2007
- Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multipl...
- Mexico's narrow demographic window of opportunity
- American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2008
- Mexico is in the midst of an unprecedented demographic transition that is changing the size and age structure of its population Over the past three decades, lower mortality rates and higher life expectancies have been coupled wi...
- The impacts of livelihood dynamics in three fruit-growing settlements Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
- X.T. Hoang; T.P. Dinh; T.H. Nguyen / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- This article discusses the reasons and implications of the decline in poverty rate among fruit farmers in the rural Mekong Delta, as compared to all other rural households in the region and in Vietnam. This decline happened despite hu...
- Circular migration in the South Mediterranean
- J. Cassarino / European University Institute, Italy, 2008
- People moving across borders may, through their mobility, be involved in a form of back and forth movement between their places of origin and of destination. Because of their repeated and fluid cross-border mobility they are circular ...
- Evaluating circular migration
- K. Newland; D.R. Agunias; A. Terrazas / Migration Policy Institute, 2008
- Circular migration is a continuing, long-term and fluid pattern of international mobility of people among countries that occupy what is now increasingly recognised as a single economic space. At its best, circular migration increases ...
- Indian men employed in London's hospitality sector
- A. Batnitzky; L. Mcdowell; S. Dyer / School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2008
- The migration of middle-class Indian men working in the hospitality sector in west London illustrates the intersection of gender and social class in organising both who migrates and what types of labour they consequently perform. In t...
- Return migration and development
- J. P. Cassarino / European University Institute, Italy, 2008
- A successful migratory experience abroad increases a migrant’s chances of reintegration in their country of origin. This short document outlines a framework approach and formulates recommendations in order to take into greater a...
- 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.
- Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)
- Campaigning against the global trafficking in people
