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  The Corner Project - Working with Children of Migrants in Mexico

  Corner Project, 2005

  The Corner Project, started by a North American in Mexico, works in a mountainous area of Mexico where male and female out-migration is significant. Farming has traditionally been the backbone of the local economy.
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  Immigration Policies: A Gendered Historical Comparison

  BRIDGE, 2003

  This piece compares policies in the USA, Canada and Sweden from the 1780s to the 1980s. The ?male-breadwinner model? has been a central principle governing who is allowed to migrate to the USA and Canada. This model is based on a male migrant who is the key labourer in the family whose wife and dependants are allowed to join him in the name of ?family reunion?.
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  Engendering Canadian Trade Policy: A Case Study of Labour Mobility in Trade Agreements

  Status of Women Canada, 2004

  This study provides a gender analysis of Canada's commitments under labour mobility agreements associated with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) (mode 4). These agreements intend to support increased cross-border trade and investment by facilitating the movement of high-skilled workers, business managers and executives.
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  Interim Report on Women and Migration

  Committee on Feminism and International Law, 2004

  This report examines from a human rights and gender angle, the 'Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children'. This protocol, signed by 117 states and ratified by 62 states, came into force in 2003.
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  Albanian Masculinities, Sex work and Migration: Homosexuality, AIDS and other Moral Threats

  University College London Press, 2004

  Extensive interviews with Albanian migrants, including sex workers, in Italy and Greece, provide the groundwork for this piece. Particularly in the early post-communist years, migration to undertake sex work emerged as an important strategy of survival for many Albanian young men, despite the stigma associated with homosexuality.
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  The Migrating Women's Handbook

  1999

  This manual provides practical tips and information for people who have decided to go abroad for jobs or to get married to foreign nationals. GAATW developed this manual to help people plan a safe journey and ensure that they will minimise problems abroad.
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  A global alliance against forced labour

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  What is ?forced labour? and how is it defined in international law? This report outlines the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) perspective on forced labour - a situation where work or service is exacted under the menace of a penalty, and is undertaken involuntarily.
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  Traffic in Women in War and Peace: Mapping Experiences in Southeast Europe

  Taylor and Francis Group, 2004

  How concerns around prostitution and migration are politically framed can decide and formulate policy strategies, with neighbouring countries taking radically different approaches to legislation. Traffic in women entails situations of violence and social control, where the lines between migration, human trafficking and smuggling become blurred.
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  Follow-up to the Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties-Argentina

  2004

  The economic, social and political crisis that Argentina has suffered since mid-1998 has had a severe negative impact on the situation of women. It caused a sharp increase in the percentage of poor and extremely poor women, in maternal mortality and female HIV/AIDS infection rates, and in sex crimes, such as trafficking for the purposes of prostitution.
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  Fifth Periodic CEDAW Report - Bangladesh

  2003

  Despite numerous positive advancements, patriarchal values and practices still limit Bangladeshi women's opportunities for education and employment. They also place them at a greater risk of violence in the form of rape, acid attacks and trafficking. Bangladesh is one of seven countries in the world where the number of women is less than that of men.

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