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  Misunderstanding Migrants: Arguments for Radical Change

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2000

  Governments worldwide have often sought to settle migrant populations. Policies have included population mobility control in China and strict laws banning rural-urban migration in Ethiopia during the Derg regime. Is migration a severe threat to established lifestyles as is widely believed?
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  The Millennium Development Goals and Migration

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  What are the linkages between migration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? There is no clear cause-and-effect relationship between migration and the achievement of the MDGs. Migration can have a positive or negative impact on development. However, if properly engaged, migrants can support the achievement of MDG targets.
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  GENDER: Persecution in the Spotlight

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2001

  When the fathers of the 1951 Convention - all men - drew up what would become the key instrument of international refugee law, they defined the right to refuge as being based on a well-founded fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, and political opinion.
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  Interim Report on Women and Migration

  Committee on Feminism and International Law, 2004

  This report examines from a human rights and gender angle, the 'Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children'. This protocol, signed by 117 states and ratified by 62 states, came into force in 2003.
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  What is the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families?

  2003

  The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRM) was approved in 1990 and came into force as an instrument of international law on July 1, 2003, with the required ratification by 20 party states.
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  Albanian Masculinities, Sex work and Migration: Homosexuality, AIDS and other Moral Threats

  University College London Press, 2004

  Extensive interviews with Albanian migrants, including sex workers, in Italy and Greece, provide the groundwork for this piece. Particularly in the early post-communist years, migration to undertake sex work emerged as an important strategy of survival for many Albanian young men, despite the stigma associated with homosexuality.
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  Women have no Tribe: Connecting Carework, Gender and Migration in an era of HIV/AIDS in Botswana

  SAGE Publications, 2003

  Men have commonly migrated within and from Botswana for many decades, leaving women to care for children and maintain the home. Previously these women would rely on remittances, usually from their migrant husbands or sons, for up to half their income. Now however, rates of HIV mean men are increasingly falling ill and unable to provide income, and mothers are ill and dying. The ?fosterage?
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  Migration, Sexuality, and the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Rural South Africa

  Southern African Migration Project, 2004

  South Africa is experiencing one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the world. Migration is one of the many social factors contributing to the epidemic. The role of migration has conventionally been understood as men migrating, becoming infected through sexual relations while away from home, and infecting their wives or regular partners when they return.
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  Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 1990

  Refugees are those who have fled across borders, while internally displaced persons (IDPs) are those who have fled from their homes but stayed within their countries. In 2003, the number of internally displaced persons was estimated to be twice that of refugees.
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  The Migrating Women's Handbook

  1999

  This manual provides practical tips and information for people who have decided to go abroad for jobs or to get married to foreign nationals. GAATW developed this manual to help people plan a safe journey and ensure that they will minimise problems abroad.

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