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  Assessing rights as citizens: the camp based Urdu speaking community in Bangladesh

  Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007

  In the Bengali- speaking nation of Bangladesh today are a small number of Urdu speakers. Many have been there for generations having migrated from the State of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal in Indian colonial times. This short policy brief identifies some of the present barriers to effective citizenship. The authors examine the community’s hopes, fears and aspirations.
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  Coping with riverbank erosion induced displacement

  Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007

  Each year, tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh are internally displaced as a consequence of riverbank erosion. Yet, such erosion does not draw the attention of policy makers in the same way that other natural disasters do and as a result, a number of coping mechanisms are employed by those affected, with the burden of displacement largely falling on women.
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  Marginalised migrant workers and social protection

  Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007

  This paper reports on a two-day workshop on marginalised migrant workers and social protection issues held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in October 2006. The workshop was organised by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit in Bangladesh and its partner, the Development Research Centre (DRC) on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, based at the University of Sussex, Brighton.
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  Social protection and internal migration in Bangladesh: supporting the poorest

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2007

  How does migration exacerbate the difficulties that many people already face in accessing formal social protection, such as additional income or food? And how can migration itself facilitate access to an informal form of social protection for poorer households, even if this is risky and does not always lead to positive outcomes?
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  Place, social protection and migration in Bangladesh: a Londoni village in Biswanath

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006

  What is the relationship between migration, poverty and social protection in Bangladesh? This paper, which is based on recent research in Biswanath, Sylhet (in Bangladesh) examines generalised notions of ‘social protection’ common to development discourse. The context is a ‘Londoni’ village (i.e. a village with high levels of transnational migration to the UK).
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  Migration and inequality: policy implications

  2006

  Does migration help to reduce inequality and if so, what policies can help to enhance this effect? Migration represents an important livelihood diversification strategy for many in the world’s poorest nations, and may be a way for poor people to gain better access to resources. This briefing paper examines the effects migration has on inequality.
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  Internal migration, poverty and development in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This ODI paper finds that internal migration could contribute significantly to the reduction of poverty in Asia.
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  Voices of child migrants: a better understanding of how life is

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006

  There is a significant gap between how children see their own experiences of migration and the way that child migrants are often represented. This report presents accounts from 16 children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghana who were interviewed in the course of the Migration DRC research so as to highlight what children themselves think and say about their lives.
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  Building towers, cheating workers: exploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  This report documents alleged exploitation of construction workers by employers in the United Arab Emirates.
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  Framework to examine urban-rural links: an example from Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Discussions on how to improve urban or rural livelihoods are mostly based on disconnected ideas that examine urban and rural areas separately. Yet there are many links between urban and rural areas because income strategies and opportunities in these two areas often related.

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