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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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  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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  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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  International migration, remittances, and poverty in developing countries

  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.
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  Labour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin

  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.
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  If people were money: estimating the potential gains from increased international migration

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper examines the potential economic gains from increased international migration. It expands on the findings of an existing applied equilibrium model that generated estimates of the efficiency gains that the world might expect to reap from increased migration.
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  Policy responses to skilled migration: retention, return and circulation

  International Migration Branch, ILO, 2003

  This paper looks at different possible policy responses to the emigration of highly skilled persons from developing countries (the brain drain) with the goal of minimising its adverse effects and promoting the sharing of gains between source and host countries.It focuses on three policy approaches: retention, return and circulation of skills.
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  Migrant remittances to developing countries: a scoping study: overview and introduction to issues for pro-poor financial services

  Bannock Consulting, 2003

  This study offers an introduction to remittances and their developmental contributions, with a particular focus on issues related to financial services.
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  Migration, return and socio-economic change in West Africa: the role of family

  Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2003

  This paper seeks to analyse the influence of migrants’ families on return and the transfer of financial, human and social capital by West African migrants who have lived in Europe and North America. The paper argues that families play an important role in return migration, remittances, and aspects of human, social and financial capital acquisition and investment.

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