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    Migration and land rental as risk response in rural China

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    Households in developing countries take various actions to smooth income or consumption as a means of managing or responding to risk. This paper examines migration and land rental market participation as responses to risk in rural China.
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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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    Population aging and individual attitudes toward immigration: disentangling age, cohort and time effects

    Philipps-University Marburg, 2011
    In the face of rising old-age dependency ratios in industrialised countries, the loosening of immigration policies is discussed as an option to ensure sustainability of public social security systems. However, the feasibility of this option in aging countries is doubtable; older individuals are thought to be more averse to immigration.
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    Land restitution as a key element in preventing forced displacement in Colombia

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2010
    The armed conflict in Colombia, which has generated over three million internally displaced persons, has dramatic humanitarian consequences and raises serious issues regarding the protection of the displaced persons’ rights.
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    Impacts of international migration and remittances on child outcomes and labour supply in Indonesia: How does gender matter?

    World Bank, 2011
    This policy research working paper empirically investigates rising international migration and remittances in Indonesia. It particularly examines the ways in which female migration (approximately 80% of Indonesia’s migrant workers in 2007) affects the livelihoods of the migrants’ origin households.
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    INFOCON

    INFOCON aims to promote a better understanding of how Civil Society Organisations representing Transnational Communities can work on preventing and resolving conflicts in Europe and worldwide.
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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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    Women’s labour migration in the context of globalisation

    Women in Development Europe, 2010
    What are the current trends in women’s migration and why are they occurring? According to this study, globalisation has led to increased international migration. However, migrants often cannot enjoy the full protection of the rights to which they are entitled. Also, labour legislation often fails to adequately protect migrant women, exacerbating their disadvantage and exploitation.
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    Immigrant integration in Europe in a time of austerity

    Migration Policy Institute, 2011
    Attitudes and changes to migrant integration policies are differing substantially from country to country, in light of worldwide economic recession, and also in reaction to 2009 elections across Europe.
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    Linking migration, reproduction and wellbeing: exploring the strategies of low-income rural-urban migrants in Vietnam

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2010
    Rural-urban migration is a core livelihood strategy for many poor people in the developing world. In post-socialist economics, like-Vietnam, its significance is growing rapidly. What does this mean for gendered family wellbeing, particularly during the critical years of early marriage when migrants are trying to build a family?

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