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    International migration and development in East Asia and the Pacific

    World Bank, 2014
    In recent decades, divergence in income and demographic profiles within East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) has spurred increased intraregional migration.
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    The interaction between informal land markets and ruralurban migration

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    If accessing urban land through informal markets is one feature that characterises being poor in South Africa’s cities, another is migration. However, very little is known about how informal land markets influence migration patterns and how migration patterns shape informal land markets.
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    Environmental migration and labor markets in Nepal

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    This discussion paper focuses on how migration impacts the labour markets of receiving communities in developing countries. 
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    Unaccompanied children from Central America: foreign policy considerations

    Federation of American Scientists, 2014
    In recent months, U.S. policy makers have expressed concerns about a significant increase in the number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) being apprehended at the U.S. border. More than 63,000 such children were apprehended over the first 10 months of the fiscal year—a 100% increase compared to same time period of FY2013. This unexpected surge of children has strained U.S.
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    Can labor mobility spark employment in Tunisia?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    The number of graduates in Tunisia increased at a very high pace in the last decade but was not followed by a similar increase of high skilled job opportunities. This paper indicates that labour mobility through migration is often presented as a way to relieve the burden on sending countries’ labour markets.
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    Migration, trade in services and employment interactions in Jordan

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    The multiple linkages between Jordan and its partners plead for an in-depth analysis of the interactions between migration, service exports and labour market. This paper is sought to capture how labour mobility affects the dynamics of local labour markets and the feed-back effects on migration.
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    The impact of migration on human capital in MENA

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    The size of labour outflows in the MENA region makes it important to examine the consequences of emigration on economic development of the origin countries. This paper focuses in particular on the impact of emigration on human capital accumulation both for those left behind and for the migrants themselves.
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    Changing status of women and the phenomenon trafficking of women for transactional sex in Nigeria: a qualitative analysis

    2013
    This paper examines the changing status of Bini women occasioned by the upsurge and endemic nature of the trafficking of women for the purpose of transactional sex. It engaged ethnographic methods of data collection with the use of family-based interviews, focus group discussions using vignette stories, life histories, and key informant interviewing.
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    Unaccompanied alien children: potential factors contributing to recent immigration

    Federation of American Scientists, 2014
    In the past several years, and in the past year in particular, the number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) seeking to enter the United States along the U.S.-Mexico border has surged to unusually high levels. This surge is driven overwhelmingly by migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
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    Unaccompanied alien children: an overview

    Federation of American Scientists, 2014
    The number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) arriving in the United States is straining the system put in place over the past decade to handle such cases.

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