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  Migrant workers and xenophobia in the Middle East

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2003

  This paper analyses trends in migration to oil rich and other labour receiving countries in the Middle East, as well as discussing causes, patterns and cases of labour-related xenophobia throughout the region.Highlights of the paper include:the major influx of foreign workers into the Middle East began following the oil price boom in 1973, which resulted in an enormous surge of wealth f
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  Staying put: time to join refugee self-sufficiency with local integration?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Some three million refugees from war-torn countries in Central and East Africa are in a protracted refugee situation – defined as living in exile for more than five years. Donors focus on delivering emergency assistance in response to high profile refugee flows, but are losing interest in helping forced migrants from states where there is no prospect of peace.
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  Human development report 2004: cultural liberty in today's diverse world

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  The UNDP Human Development Report 2004 focuses on policy approaches to multicultural nations and communities.
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  Unions, democracy and restructuring of public service

  National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2004

  This book deals with a variety of issues surrounding unions, democracy and the reconstruction of public services.
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  Globalization, technology and Asian development

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2003

  This paper discusses issues of globalisation, trade and Asian development.
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  Poverty, international migration and asylum

  United Nations University, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues surrounding poverty, international migration and asylum.
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  Copenhagen Consensus: challenge paper on population and migration

  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 overall goal is to create a world in which migration is unnecessary because sufficient opportunity exists at home.
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  A global look to the local: replacing economic globalisation with democratic localisation

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper seeks to identify the forms of economic organisation that might best support the institutionalisation of democratic participation in decisions on environment and development.
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  Governance and the city: an empirical exploration into global determinants of urban performance

  World Bank Institute, World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines the field of urban governance and globalisation through an empirically-based exploration of determinants of performance of cities.
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  Educating refugees in countries of first asylum: the case of Uganda

  Migration Policy Institute, 2004

  This article discusses the way an innovative new method of delivering education is seeking to provide for the future security of refugee families in Uganda. It suggests that the current model of international assistance in refugee camps and settlements tends to focus on meeting refugees’ immediate and short-term needs, neglecting longer-term goals and needs for stability and future security.

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