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    Angry Young Men in Camps: Gender, Age and Class Relations among Burundian Refugees in Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
    How does life in a refugee camp affect gender, age and class relations? How do relief operations challenge or reinforce hierarchies? Based on a year's fieldwork with Burundian refugees in Lukole Refugee Camp in North Western Tanzania, this paper explores these questions.
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    Refugee and Internally Displaced Women; Gender-Based Asylum Claims

    2005
    Refugee and internally displaced women are vulnerable to abuse by governments, insurgent groups, and other refugees as they flee conflict, persecution, or natural catastrophe in their countries or locations of origin. They are vulnerable to violence both as a result of the surrounding problem and because of their dependence on outsiders for relief provisions.
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    Maximising the Benefits of Internal Migration for Development

    International Organization for Migration, 2005
    There is more internal migration in China and India combined than internationally worldwide. Migration is both rural to urban, and from poorer to richer rural areas. Recent field studies in Asia show that, if managed properly, internal migration can play an important role in poverty reduction and redistribution between richer and poorer areas.
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    Gender and Internal Migration - Considerations and Challenges (presentation for Regional Conference on Migration and Development in Asia)

    International Organization for Migration, 2005
    Internal migration far exceeds cross-border migration, both in China and globally. There is both legally authorised and irregular migration internally as well as internationally.
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    Gender Equality. Striving for Justice in an Unequal World

    2005
    More women are migrating than before; however, few statistics on migration are sex-disaggregated. Surveys underestimate irregular migrants. On the basis of the data that is available, this chapter provides an overview of key trends in migration in the West and Asia. In North America and Europe, women predominate among migrants entering on the basis of family reunification.
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    International Labour Organization (ILO) Series on Women and Migration

    International Labour Organization, 2003
    These working papers present research on a range of labour-sending and -receiving countries. They identify different groups involved in international migration, and outline the needs and concerns of female migrant workers. Good practices are documented for promoting and protecting rights of migrant women workers and preventing them from being trafficked, exploited or abused.
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    Fact Sheet: Gender and Migration

    International Organization for Migration, 2002
    How does gender shape the different experiences of migrant women and men? Gender can have a greater effect on experiences of migration than country of origin or destination, age, class, race or culture. Migrant women now account for almost 50 per cent of migrants and are increasingly migrating as individuals rather than as dependants of other family members.
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    Evaluation of DFID development assistance: gender equality and women's empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Migration and Development

    Department for International Development, UK, 2005
    This report analyses the United Kingdom Department for International Development's work on migration from the perspective of its commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment. It assesses how far DFID's work to date has adopted its own indicators of effective gender mainstreaming, and suggests areas for strengthening DFID's contribution in this field.
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    Immigration Policies: A Gendered Historical Comparison

    BRIDGE, 2003
    This piece compares policies in the USA, Canada and Sweden from the 1780s to the 1980s. The ?male-breadwinner model? has been a central principle governing who is allowed to migrate to the USA and Canada. This model is based on a male migrant who is the key labourer in the family whose wife and dependants are allowed to join him in the name of ?family reunion?.
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    Migration and Gender: Section 2.10

    International Organization for Migration, 2005
    The learning objectives for this section of The Essentials of Migration Management are to enable people to: identify areas where gender is a significant factor in formulating migration policy options; understand the importance of gender-related and gender-specific issues; and develop the ability to assess the impact of gender on migration policy options in any given setting.

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