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Challenges to sending money back home

Why do young people move? Who are they? This report explores the lives of young migrants from or those whose lives are marked by the experiences of spouses or relatives who have moved abroad.

The authors hope that by listening to the voices of young people touched by migration, by showing their human faces as they live their lives and by sharing their concerns and needs for education, employment, health, security and peace, this report will help to call attention to young people, as part of the discussion on international migration.

The authors conclude that some young people will leave out of a sense of adventure, or to escape personal tragedy, or simply because travel is easier than it ever has been. But most of the people whose stories are told in this report would have preferred to stay at home. The authors point out that ensuring that migration is voluntary, establishing safe and secure conditions for migration and respecting both human rights and national borders are challenges for all countries.

Participants in the study were from Burkina Faso, Colombia, India, Kenya, Liberia, Moldova, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Suriname and Zambia.

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