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    The Gendered Dimensions of Sex Trafficking

    Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, 2012
    The entire trafficking cycle from beginning to end is highly gendered: from the root causes that make women vulnerable to trafficking, to the normalization and implicitness of demand, and the gendered institutional responses and policy approaches to anti-trafficking.
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    The dark side of migration: spotlight on Qatar’s construction sector ahead of the world cup

    Amnesty International, 2013
    There are 1.38 million foreign nationals working in Qatar, 94 per cent of the total workforce. This growth is driven primarily by the recruitment of low-paid migrant workers to support an infrastructure development programme. The construction, which is already underway, is designed to turn Doha from a capital city into a regional and global hub.
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    The health dimension of Asian migration to Europe - abridged report

    Asia Foundation, 2012
    What are the public health implications of Asian migration to Europe?  This reort looks at a study undertaken in Madrid, Spain and Milan, Italy among Filipinos and Chinese, the two largest Asian migrant groups in those two cities.
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    Reflections on identifying objectives and indicators for psychosocial programming

    Psychosocial Working Group, 2005
    Measuring the success of psychosocial interventions in conflict situations is crucial to developing an understanding of what makes programmes effective. Evaluation of psychosocial programmes often stays at the level of measuring progress and outputs (such as provision of services). What is crucial is to develop measures of outcomes and impacts.
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    Judicial reviews: an innovative mechanism to enforce human rights in Latin America | ELLA

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Through ground-breaking rulings, judges in Latin America are driving social change by ordering governments to restore and enforce human rights.
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    Inside the labor-sending state: the role of frontline welfare bureaucrats and informal migration governance in Qatar

    DigitalCommons@ILR, 2013
    Since the 1970s, many labor-sending countries (LSCs) like the Philippines have increasingly faced a policy dilemma between protecting their citizens’ labour rights and maintaining labor market access in the Arab Gulf region. To address such constraint, many LSCs have increasingly developed emigration policies and institutions to protect and promote workers’ rights.
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    Migration and remittance flows: recent trends and outlook , 2013 - 2016

    World Bank, 2013
    As many emerging markets are facing a weakening balance of payments, the importance of remittances as a source of foreign currency earnings is increasing. Remittances are now nearly three times the size of official development assistance and larger than private debt and portfolio equity flows to developing countries. Main comments from this brief include:
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    Labor migration and deskilling in the United Arab Emirates: impacts on Cameroonian labor migrants

    2013
    With growing unemployment and sociopolitical conflicts, combined with increasing immigration restrictions in the West, many Sub-Saharan African labour migrants are increasingly migrating to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries - particularly the United Arab Emirates - as temporary labour migrants, entrepreneurs, refugees, and students.
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    Trafficking in persons report 2013

    US Department of State, 2013
    Ending modern slavery must remain a foreign policy priority. This Report takes an unflinching view at human trafficking around the world, what governments are doing, and what they are failing to do.
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    Demographic window of opportunity in Africa - and the role of migration

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2012
    A change in the population structure that leads to a growing workforce can be important for economic growth, if combined with effective policies and markets. However, few analyses of demographic dividend have addressed the crucial role of migration in population dynamics in Africa.

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