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    An overview of urbanisation, internal migration, population distribution and development in the world

    United Nations Population Division, 2008
    This report presents a range of data and examples to illustrate and explore global patterns of urbanisation. Urbanisation is precipitated by agricultural industrialisation and further driven by the concentration of investment and employment opportunities in urban areas; between 1920 and 2007, the world’s urban population increased from about 270 million to 3.3 billion.
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    Migration for hard work: a reluctant livelihood strategy for poor households in West Bengal, India

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    What can in-depth and long term ethnographic research contribute to our understanding of why some households use migration as part of their livelihood strategy while others do not? How can ethnography enrich our understanding of the changing conditions for migration and people’s responses to these over time?
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    Return to Afghanistan?: a study of Afghans living in Tehran

    United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2005
    This paper explores the experiences and livelihoods of Afghan migrants living in Iran. It aims to increase understanding of transnational migration as a key livelihood strategy in the regional context.
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    Bound for the city: a study of rural to urban labour migration in Afghanistan

    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 were surveyed in the three cities of Kabul, Herat and Jalalabad.
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    Transnational networks: recognising a regional reality

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005
    This paper highlights the importance of transnational migratory networks in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Current trends in policy making on migration tend to focus on repatriation of Afghans from neighbouring countries.
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    Return to Afghanistan?: a study of Afghans living in Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran

    Reliefweb, 2005
    What happens to refugees who spend long periods living in host countries? Why, despite policies aimed to encourage repatriation do some choose not to return? Why do transitory migrants continue to return despite unemployment and poor labour conditions?
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    Afghans in Quetta: settlements, livelihoods, support networks and cross-border linkages

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    Huge numbers of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have returned to Afghanistan, yet an almost equal number has remained, despite an often hostile government response. Why is this? This paper shows how livelihoods analysis can shed light on push and pull factors in people’s decision making about whether to stay or return.
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    Migration and development linkage in Ecuador

    Federico Caffe Center, Dept. of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, 2007
    How can policy makers best support people’s livelihoods in the context of migration? What policies can enhance social protection in the context of transnational networks? How can policy makers link migration and development to both reduce push factors as well as support the use of migrant remittances for social development?
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    Social networks and migration: far west Nepalese labour migrants in Delhi

    NCCR North South, 2006
    According to the livelihoods approach, choice and practice of migration is strongly linked with the assets people possess. Social networks are key assets in determining the nature and potential success of migration as a strategy to improve livelihoods.
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    The effects of food aid on household migration patterns and implications for emergency food assessments

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    Many of the people that the World Food Programme (WFP) assists in its emergency programmes have migrated as a result of a natural or human-made disaster. This report analyses migration as it is practiced by people not only as a result of a crisis, but also as a strategy to reduce vulnerability and maximise income prior to or during a crisis.

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