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    Migration, climate change and the environment

    International Organization for Migration, 2009
    Environmental factors have long had an impact on global migration flows. Although there is limited reliable data on the subject, the scale of such flows, both internal and cross-border, is expected to rise significantly over the next decades as a result of climate change.
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    Refugee girls: the invisible faces of war

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2009
    More than 140 million girls live in fragile states affected by armed conflict. As they flee from war, girls face many dangers, including rape, landmines, gunfire and hunger. They may be recruited into armed forces or captured by traffickers, or they may fall ill. As they try to navigate through the chaos and confusion around them, family members may be left behind.
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    Independent north-south child migration in Ghana: the decision making process

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2009
    Whilst migration is neither a new phenomenon, nor specific to any group of people, the trends and dynamics of population movements vary greatly over space and time.
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    Unravelling the vicious cycle of recruitment: labour migration from Bangladesh to the Gulf States

    International Labour Organization, 2009
    The influx of foreign workers to the Gulf countries over recent decades has created a unique situation in that region, with the majority of the labour force comprising non-nationals. This paper examines the recruitment processes of migrants from Bangladesh and their varied outcomes in terms of working conditions and workers’ rights in the country of destination.
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    Nowhere to turn: failure to protect, support and assure justice for Darfuri women

    Physicians for Human Rights, 2009
    It is over five years since many refugee women and their families them fled their burned villages, ransacked homes and ruined fields in Chad and streamed across the Sudan border. This report amplifies the voices of some 88 women in the Farchana refugee camp.
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    Staying behind when husbands move: women’s experiences in India and Bangladesh

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2009
    The study of the difficulties faced by those who stay behind when a member of their household migrates temporarily are under-researched in migration studies. The aim of this briefing is to summarise the effects of the temporary absence of migrant men on women’s livelihoods in rural West Bengal, India, and northern Bangladesh.
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    "The Island of Happiness": exploitation of migrant workers on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    Human Rights Watch, 2009
    Saadiyat Island, in the Arabian Gulf, is a 27 square kilometer island consisting primarily of sand and mangrove swamp. Within a decade, if a $22 to 27 billion development plan goes according to schedule, the island will host six international cultural institutions, a performing arts center, a campus of New York University, two golf courses, expensive private residences, a marina, and 29 hotels.
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    Building livelihoods: a field manual for practitioners in humanitarian settings

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2009
    Although necessary, emergency relief can only fulfil a limited role. For those that are forced to rely on humanitarian assistance for long periods aid must be provided for displaced persons to garner skills, training and economic opportunities in order to establish sustainable livelihoods.
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    Internal displacement global overview of trends and developments in 2008

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2009
    With approximately 26 million people internally displaced worldwide, the issue of IDPs remain one of the most serious challenges for the international development community. This report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) examines the 2008 internal displacement trends.
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    Undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Israel

    EuroMesco, 2009
    Over the last three years, Israel’s vast experience in absorbing immigrants has been challenged by a new migration phenomenon. Its growing dimension presents several problems to the State’s integrative policies, which have traditionally had the Jewish context as their ideological framework of reference.

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