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Access to socio-economic rights for non-nationals in the Southern African Development Community
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012While many countries in Africa are contemplating ways in which to extend access to social protection for their citizens, the enjoyment of socio-economic rights by non-nationals receives scarce commentary.DocumentThe labor mobility-employment nexus: a general equilibrium analysis for Jordan
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014While studies on the impact of migration on host countries are still dominant, interest in the emigration impact on the home country's labour market is increasing.DocumentLiving conditions of displaced persons and host communities in urban Goma, DRC
Norwegian Refugee Council, 2014Goma has been a central point for the reception of displaced persons over the last 20 years of conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Following significant waves of arrivals in 2012 and 2013, due to conflict with the M23 – a militia active in North Kivu from early 2012 to late 2013 – 1 camps around the city were grossly overcrowded.DocumentInternational migration and development in East Asia and the Pacific
World Bank, 2014In recent decades, divergence in income and demographic profiles within East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) has spurred increased intraregional migration.DocumentChanging status of women and the phenomenon trafficking of women for transactional sex in Nigeria: a qualitative analysis
2013This 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.DocumentProfits and poverty: the economics of forced labour
International Labour Organization, 2014Today, about 21 million men, women and children are in forced labour, trafficked, held in debt bondage or work in slave-like conditions. This report builds on earlier ILO studies on the extent, cost and profits from forced labour. It looks at both the supply and demand sides of forced labour, and presents solid evidence for a correlation between forced labour and poverty.DocumentLose to gain: is involuntary resettlement a development opportunity?
Asian Development Bank, 2014Resettlement policies and laws in South Asian countries at present focus primarily on compensation payment for property acquired for a public purpose.DocumentIn their own words: assessment of satisfaction with residential location among migrants in Nairobi slums
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011Using qualitative data collected from a sample of rural-urban migrants over the age of 15 in two Nairobi slums interviewed in 2008, this paper discusses the migrants’ extent of satisfaction with their residential location and decision to migrate.DocumentCircular migration patterns and determinants in Nairobi slum settlements
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010This paper measures migration flows and determinants in two slum settlements in Nairobi City between 2003 and 2007. The results confirm the high intensity of migration with a quarter of the total slum population and a third of those aged 15-30 being renewed annually.DocumentOverview of migration, poverty and health dynamics in Nairobi City's slum settlements
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011The Urbanization, Poverty, and Health Dynamics research program was designed to generate and provide the evidence base that would help governments, development partners, and other stakeholders understand how the urban slum context affects health outcomes in order to stimulate policy and action for uplifting the wellbeing of slum residents.Pages