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    Mainstreaming migration into development policy agendas

    International Organization for Migration, 2005
    This book is a report on the February 2005 Workshop on Migration held in Geneva, which explored the links between migration and development, and the importance of incorporating it into the agendas of development policies in light of the MDGs.
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    Temporary worker programs: a patchwork policy response

    Migration Policy Institute, 2006
    Spelling out the various immigration programmes currently in place in the US, the author argues that incomplete, inconsistent, and non-comparable data limits the certainty to which statements can be made about the exact number of individuals entering the US on temporary visas.
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    Skilled migration: healthcare policy options

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    This policy brief examines the case for a two-tiered health training system.
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    Sending money to South Africa from the UK

    Sending Money Home?, 2006
    This site and accompanying leaflet is aimed at people wanting to send money to South Africa from the UK.
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    Feminized migration in East and Southeast Asia: policies, actions and empowerment

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
    This paper discusses the causes, processes and consequences of feminised migration in the context of East and South East Asia’s expanding global capitalism, increasing feminisation of the economic means for family survival, and rising civil activism both in local communities and transnationally.
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    Migration, remittances and gender in the Dominican Republic: Women’s contribution to development

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    This paper examines the gender differences of men and women as heads of households and senders-recipients of remittances in the Dominican Republic.
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    Skilled migration: new policy options

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    This brief article analyses the debate surrounding the issue of brain drain. Developed countries today are seen as taking highly skilled workers from developing countries to meet their own labour needs. This is seen as having a negative impact on the development of poor countries.
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    Till to tiller: linkages between international remittances and access to land in West Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
    This paper, prepared for FAO’s Land Tenure Service and Sub-programme, explores the role remittances have on people’s access to land and natural resources.
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    Efforts underway to stem "brain drain" of doctors and nurses

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005
    This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines actions that are being taken to combat the problem of developing countries losing healthcare professionals through migration to wealthier countries.
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    China’s overseas professionals facilitate knowledge exchange

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Since the end of the 1970s, nearly 300,000 professionals have migrated permanently from the People’s Republic of China. Many were students sent overseas by the Chinese government to international universities who then never returned. However, these migrants have helped their country through the knowledge exchanged between China and rest of the world.

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