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    Housing and land rights: the camp dwelling Urdu-speaking community in Bangladesh

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
    There are about 16,0000 Urdu-speaking Muslim people in Bangladesh living in 161 camps since 1971. They are also called Biharis or stranded Pakistanis as they emigrated from various Indian states during partition in 1947. They supported the Pakistani army in the liberation war of Bangladesh and consequently labeled as traitors or Pakistani collaborators.
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    Responding to displacement: id21 insights, issue 44

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Over the past 50 years, forced displacement has been a major obstacle to development and the fight against poverty. Despite the efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and others to find ‘durable solutions’ for those who are forced to flee their homes, attitudes have, if anything, hardened towards refugees and asylum-seekers.
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    Climate change and flow of environmental displacement in Bangladesh

    Unnayan Onneshan, 2009
    This study depicts environmental displacement with the premise of increased frequency of natural disasters and the adverse impacts of climate change. Bangladesh is already experiencing recurrent floods, severe cyclones, water logging, salinity intrusions, droughts and river bank erosion which induce mass population displacement.
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    Unravelling the vicious cycle of recruitment: labour migration from Bangladesh to the Gulf States

    International Labour Organization, 2009
    The influx of foreign workers to the Gulf countries over recent decades has created a unique situation in that region, with the majority of the labour force comprising non-nationals. This paper examines the recruitment processes of migrants from Bangladesh and their varied outcomes in terms of working conditions and workers’ rights in the country of destination.
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    Staying behind when husbands move: women’s experiences in India and Bangladesh

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2009
    The study of the difficulties faced by those who stay behind when a member of their household migrates temporarily are under-researched in migration studies. The aim of this briefing is to summarise the effects of the temporary absence of migrant men on women’s livelihoods in rural West Bengal, India, and northern Bangladesh.
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    Protifolon: Impact of global financial crisis on the economy of Bangladesh

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2009
    Since the collapse of the United States sub prime mortgage market and the subsequent international global crisis, many developed and developing countries have been plunged into deep recession. Bangladesh, whose economy is less dependent than some on international capital and foreign investment, found itself in a less critical position but still took early steps to shield it's economy.
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    Social protection for internal labour migrants in Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Many Bangladeshis depend on temporary work migration. The income they gain comes at a price. Disrupted families, abandoned education, ill-health and exploitation threaten the security of both those migrating and those left behind. Can support from government, civil society, relatives and communities reduce their vulnerabilities?
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    Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
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    Climate change and displacement

    Forced Migration Review, 2008
    In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges of this century.
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    Demographics and climate change: future trends and their policy implications for migration

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
    This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps that could be plugged with appropriate new research.

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