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    The impact of Syria's Refugees on Southern Turkey

    Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2013
    As of summer 2013, at least half a million Syrian refugees had flooded into southern Turkey, creating challenges on several fronts. In demographic terms, the influx could result in permanent Arab majorities in certain border provinces and catapult Sunni Arabs to dominance over Alawites.
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    Running out of time: Survival of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon

    Harvard School of Public Health, 2014
    This report documents the findings of a rapid assessment of the needs of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon undertaken over 10 days in November 2013. A two-person team interviewed Syrian refugee families in Beirut, Tripoli, and the Bekaa, as well as a broad spectrum of informed staff at local and international NGOs and agencies.
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    Non-Paper on the International Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

    The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, 2014
    The Syrian refugee crisis represents one of the greatest humanitarian challenges the international community has faced over the recent years, prompting record-high levels of international aid.
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    The global challenge of managing migration

    Population Reference Bureau, 2013
    The number of international migrants more than doubled between1980 and 2010, from 103 million to 220 million. In 2013, the number of international migrants was 232 million and is projected to double to over 400 million by 2050.
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    Disaster-related displacement from the Horn of Africa

    Norwegian Refugee Council, 2014
    Between 2008 and 2012, 144 million people were forced to leave their homes by sudden-onset disasters around the world. The vast majority of them fled from floods, storms and wildfires and others effects of climate change. Most remain in their countries as internally displaced people, but many also flee across the borders to other countries.
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    Profits and poverty: the economics of forced labour

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    Today, 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.
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    Child exploitation and the FIFA World Cup: a review of risks and protective interventions

    Brunel Centre for Sport, Health and Wellbeing, 2013
    The many benefits of major sporting events (MSEs) for child development related to learning, healthy lifelong physical activity, civic pride and multi-cultural sensitisation are well documented. These benefits should obviously be weighed against concerns about child exploitation and MSEs.
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    United Glasgow Football Club: a study in sport's facilitation of integration

    Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2014
    Around the world, sport has increasingly been touted as a vehicle for social change by organisations, academics and athletes alike. Sport programmes are said to promote conflict resolution, physical and mental health, and acceptance of diversity. Sport has also been applied to facilitate the integration of migrant groups into host societies.
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    Lose to gain: is involuntary resettlement a development opportunity?

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    Resettlement policies and laws in South Asian countries at present focus primarily on compensation payment for property acquired for a public purpose.
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    Hidden victims of the Syrian crisis: disabled, injured and older refugees

    HelpAge International, 2014
    The Syrian crisis has generated the largest refugee movement since the Rwandan genocide. Within this refugee population older, disabled and injured refugees face specific challenges that contribute to their vulnerability, yet, studies of humanitarian programming show that these same groups are often neglected in the assessment, data collection, design and delivery of responses.

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