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    The Great Lakes Pact and the rights of displaced people: a guide for civil society

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
    The Great Lakes region has one of the largest displaced populations in the whole world with about two million refugees and ten million IDPs. Most of these displacements are due to violent conflict.
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    Livelihood risk from HIV in semi-arid tropics of rural Andhra Pradesh

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    This paper discusses the livelihood dynamics in the fragile landscape of the semi arid tropics of Andhra Pradesh. The area is home to the poorest of the poor who live in conditions of persistent drought, subsistence agriculture and poor access to markets.
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    Patterns of circular migration in the Euro-Mediterranean area: implications for policy-making

    European University Institute, Italy, 2008
    People moving across borders may, through their mobility, be involved in a form of back and forth movement between their places of origin and of destination. Because of their repeated and fluid cross-border mobility they are circular migrants.
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    Urbanization and rural development in Vietnam's Mekong Delta: livelihood transformations in three fruit-growing settlements

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This article discusses the reasons and implications of the decline in poverty rate among fruit farmers in the rural Mekong Delta, as compared to all other rural households in the region and in Vietnam. This decline happened despite huge fluctuations in export markets for fruit in the last decade.
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    Learning by doing: experiences of circular migration

    Migration Policy Institute, 2008
    Circular migration is a continuing, long-term and fluid pattern of international mobility of people among countries that occupy what is now increasingly recognised as a single economic space. At its best, circular migration increases the likelihood that both countries of origin and destination gain from international mobility.
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    Africa: human rights protection for trafficked and migrant persons

    Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, 2008
    Trafficking and the number of organisations working to stop it is gaining prominence in Africa. This special issue of the Global Alliance against Trafficking in Women newsletter focuses specifically on Africa. The authors provide some contextual information on trafficking and labour migration as well as highlight the initiatives of organisations working on those issues in the region.
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    The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) (CoRMSA)

    The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA), formerly known as the National Consortium for Refugee Affairs, is a registered non profit organisation tasked with promoting and p
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    UN global initiative to fight trafficking

    The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) was conceived to join forces and coordinate the global fight on human trafficking, on the basis of foremost international a
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    Independent child migration: introducing children’s perspectives

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
    Much of the recent research on child migration has focused on children who face particularly dire situations, including those who are coerced into migration and face highly exploitative conditions of labour at their destinations.
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    A middle-class global mobility? The working lives of Indian men in a west London hotel

    School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2008
    The migration of middle-class Indian men working in the hospitality sector in west London illustrates the intersection of gender and social class in organising both who migrates and what types of labour they consequently perform. In this article the authors examine the working lives of young, single, middle-class Indian men employed in the increasingly global hospitality sector in London, UK.

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