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    Making migration work: the role of employers in migrant integration

    Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2008
    As a Europe-wide debate emerges on the need for more active integration policies for migrants, this Working Paper looks at those who are most integral to the process and yet are often left out of the policy discussions the people who employ them.
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    Assesing the costs and impact of migration policy: an international comparison

    International Organization for Migration, 2008
    International migration has advanced to the top of the policy agendas in a growing number of countries. This document describes and compares the ways in which some of the major immigration countries in the world and some key international bodies, such as the European Commission, assess the costs and impacts of their migration policies and programmes.
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    Climate change, security and sustainable development

    Institute for Environmental Security, 2008
    This paper documents the conference entitled “From Bali to Poznan: New Issues, New Challenges”. Convened by the Institute of Environmental Security on the 18 December 2007 and held at the European Parliament in Brussels, the conference discussed the impact of climate change on international security and sustainable development.
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    Addressing internal displacement in peace processes, peace agreements and peace-building

    Brookings Institution, 2007
    This paper explores how the issue of internal displacement can best be integrated into peace processes, peace agreements and peace-building. It specifically looks at:
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    FeMiPol

    The European Commission has highlighted the contribution that immigrants could make to the Lisbon Strategy objectives, by acknowledging that the integration of migrants serves to enhance the potential
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    Second-generation Afghans in Iran: integration, identity and return

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008
    The total number of documented Afghans aged between 15 and 29 years living in Iran is about 33.4 percent of the total population of Afghans in Iran. Broadly speaking, these Afghans may be categorised as “second-generation”, that is, those Afghans born in Iran, or who have spent more than half of their life in Iran.
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    A gendered assessment of the brain drain

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2007
    International migration is a diverse phenomenon and its impact on source and destination countries has attracted the increased attention of policymakers, scientists and international agencies. Due to the lack of harmonised data, the brain drain debate has, until recently, remained essentially theoretical.
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    Integration of female immigrants in labour market and society: policy assessment and policy recommendations

    FeMiPol, 2008
    Migration flows to EU countries during the last few decades indicate a growth in feminisation, with female migrants increasingly entering informal labour markets in care, health, domestic services and the sex industry.
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    Determinants of remittances: recent evidence using data on internal migrants in Vietnam

    World Bank, 2008
    Migration flows in Vietnam in the past were strictly controlled by a combination of  government migration policies and the household registration system (ho khau). This paper examines the determinants of remittance behavior for Vietnam using data from the 2004 Vietnam Migration Survey on internal migrants.
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    Understanding the links between migration and development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    There is much debate as to whether migration promotes development in home countries. While cash remittances sent by diaspora populations do benefit home countries, policymakers must recognise the social and economic costs caused by emigration and seek to enhance the positive links where possible.

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