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  Recognising the importance of international migration

  Eldis Gender Resource Guide, 2006

  The recent UN High Level Dialogue on Migration provided a platform for the articulation of many related issues that are bound up with the possibilities and perils of globalisation.
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  The international migration of health workers: a human rights analysis

  Medact, 2005

  This MedAct report argues that a human rights framework provides a way to examine the social, political and economic problems that are caused by and come from the international migration of health workers.
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  The "skills drain" of health professionals from the developing world: a framework for policy formulation

  Medact, 2005

  This paper from MedAct examines policy towards health professionals’ migration from perspective of economics and governance. The authors argue that current policy responses to migration of health professionals from low income developing countries underestimate the pressures for migration, and mis-identify the reasons for rising migration.
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  2006 world population data sheet

  Population Reference Bureau, 2006

  The data sheet provides up-to-date demographic, health, and environment data for all the countries and major regions of the world.This issue of the data sheet emphasises the forces shaping migration rates around the world, suggesting that:many developing countries experience inflows of people from other developing countries.
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  Why do migrants return to poor countries? Evidence from Philippine migrants’ responses to exchange rate shocks

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  Economic models of migration behaviour have sought to explain why migrants might return to a poorer home country. Models suggest that some migrants are motivated by the desire to earn more over their lifetime in the host country, while others aim only to earn a ‘target’ amount before returning home.
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  Education and conflict: research, policy and practice

  Forced Migration Review, 2006

  This supplement complements the Forced Migration Review issue on education and emergencies – “Education in emergencies: learning for a peaceful future” – published in January 2005. It includes summaries of key presentations from the “Education and Conflict: Research, Policy and Practice” conference convened by UNICEF and Oxford University.
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  Migration policy and its interactions with aid, trade, and foreign direct investment policies: a background paper

  OECD Development Centre, 2006

  This paper reviews the literature on the interconnections between migration, rich-country trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and development assistance, and the positive and negative effects on the sending countries’ development.
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  The EU return policy: premises and implications

  European University Institute, Italy, 2006

  This paper discusses the development and potential implications of the European Union Return Policy.The paper argues that the EU return policy has been viewed as an instrument aimed at tackling illegal migration and at protecting the integrity of the EU migration and asylum policy as well as the migration and asylum systems of the Member States.
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  Remittances and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The government of Zimbabwe’s policy on international migrants has recently focused on the potential developmental effects of the remittances. It has established the ‘Home Link’ scheme which aims to channel these. However, low trust from the migrants and low official exchange rates are major obstacles to this.
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  Colombia: government "peace process" cements injustice for IDPs

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2006

  This document maps out the historical background over the past two decades of the forced displacement of Columbian peasants and small farmers, as a way to seize agricultural land. It reports that more than 3.5 million out of the country’s 40 million people have been displaced during the last two decades, known as internally displaced people (IDPs).

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