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  Bound for the city: a study of rural to urban labour migration in Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005

  This report analyses internal labour migration in Afghanistan. It aims to uncover the reasons for and patterns of rural to urban labour migration as part of household livelihood strategies and risk management. Almost a thousand people were surveyed in the three cities of Kabul, Herat and Jalalabad.
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  Transnational networks: recognising a regional reality

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005

  This paper highlights the importance of transnational migratory networks in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Current trends in policy making on migration tend to focus on repatriation of Afghans from neighbouring countries.
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  Return to Afghanistan?: a study of Afghans living in Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran

  Reliefweb, 2005

  What happens to refugees who spend long periods living in host countries? Why, despite policies aimed to encourage repatriation do some choose not to return? Why do transitory migrants continue to return despite unemployment and poor labour conditions?
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  Afghans in Quetta: settlements, livelihoods, support networks and cross-border linkages

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006

  Huge numbers of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have returned to Afghanistan, yet an almost equal number has remained, despite an often hostile government response. Why is this? This paper shows how livelihoods analysis can shed light on push and pull factors in people’s decision making about whether to stay or return.
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  Migration and development linkage in Ecuador

  Federico Caffe Center, Dept. of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, 2007

  How can policy makers best support people’s livelihoods in the context of migration? What policies can enhance social protection in the context of transnational networks? How can policy makers link migration and development to both reduce push factors as well as support the use of migrant remittances for social development?
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  Social protection for internal labour migrants in Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  Many Bangladeshis depend on temporary work migration. The income they gain comes at a price. Disrupted families, abandoned education, ill-health and exploitation threaten the security of both those migrating and those left behind. Can support from government, civil society, relatives and communities reduce their vulnerabilities?
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  Social networks and migration: far west Nepalese labour migrants in Delhi

  NCCR North South, 2006

  According to the livelihoods approach, choice and practice of migration is strongly linked with the assets people possess. Social networks are key assets in determining the nature and potential success of migration as a strategy to improve livelihoods.
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  The effects of food aid on household migration patterns and implications for emergency food assessments

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Many of the people that the World Food Programme (WFP) assists in its emergency programmes have migrated as a result of a natural or human-made disaster. This report analyses migration as it is practiced by people not only as a result of a crisis, but also as a strategy to reduce vulnerability and maximise income prior to or during a crisis.
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  To return or to remain: the dilemma of second-generation Afghans in Pakistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007

  What is known about second-generation Afghans living in Pakistan? What can be understood regarding the push and pull factors that influence their decision to stay where they have spent more than half their lives, or return to the place where their parents were born?
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  Skills, growth and migration policy: overcoming the 'fatal constraint'

  Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa, 2007

  South Africa suffers from a serious shortage of skilled people. This is a major constraint on the prospects of achieving the kind of sustained economic growth that will reduce poverty and open the way for much wider participation in the economy. In this report the authors review skills issues in South Africa and how they have developed up to this point.

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