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    id21 viewpoint - Brain drains in context

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In order to ‘make poverty history’, it is often felt that Africa needs the skilled people it produces. Developed countries are seen as ‘poaching’ and ‘hoovering up’ skilled people from Africa and other developing regions to meet their own labour demands.
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    Migrant remittances in the context of crisis in Somali society: a case study of Hargeisa

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006
    Observing that migration and remittances have been an important feature of Somali society since the breakout of civil war in 1988 and the collapse of the state in 1991, this paper argues that data on the scale and effects of remittances remains limited.
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    Familiar faces, familiar places: the role of family networks and previous experience for Albanian migrants

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
    Using data from the 2003 Albanian Panel Survey, this paper examines the evolution of Albanian international migration since the fall of Communism in 1990, and analyses the determinants of current flows.Some of the findings include:permanent migration is most likely for people living in Tirana and for younger, higher educated males.
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    Remittances in crises: a Haiti case study

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006
    This study examines the role of remittances to Haiti’s third largest city, Gonaives, after it was destroyed by the September 2004 tropical storm Jean. The author finds that:migrant remittances make up a ‘chain of solidarity’, from neighbours, relatives living in other parts of the country, international humanitarian agencies, and overseas relatives.
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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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    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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