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Searching with a thematic focus on Globalisation, Gender and migration in China

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  First hand knowledge: voices across the Mekong: community action against trafficking of children and women

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This paper is an account of the stories of children and women, and the communities to which they belong, who explain their engagement in a program designed to help prevent trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation. The accounts are drawn from communities in the five participating countries: Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, and China.
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  Anti-human trafficking program in Vietnam: trafficking in women and children from Vietnam to China: legal framework and government responses

  Human Trafficking, 2005

  As with many of its neighbours, human trafficking is a growing problem in Vietnam and China. This paper contributes to the current debate on development and humanitarian policy issues related to human trafficking. The study identifies the legal framework against human trafficking in Vietnam and China, and also explores governmental intervention on the issue in both countries.
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  Internal migration, poverty and development in Asia including the excluded through partnerships and improved governance

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  This paper explores the relationship between internal migration and economic growth and development in Asia, concentrating on four countries – China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia – and looks at ways in which greatest benefit could be derived from internal migration. Although internal migration is by no means a new phenomenon, it has increased rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s and is continuing
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  Trends and government policies: reducing irregular migration from China

  Global Development Network, 2005

  Since the 1980’s, an unprecedented form of Chinese migration has emerged giving rise to trafficking in human beings and irregular migration, which are at present serious human rights issues.
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  Globalization and non-traditional security issues: a study of human and drug trafficking in East Asia

  Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2004

  One consequence of globalisation has been the increased cross-border flows of non-traditional threats. This paper focuses on illicit drug and human trafficking in China and Southeast Asian countries and examines these categories of transnational crime in the context of a globalising world.
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  Migration, development and poverty reduction in Asia

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  This document is a report from the The Regional Conference on Migration and Development in Asia, held in Lanzhou, China from 14-16 March 2005.The report focuses on the migration and development experiences of a selected number of Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan and Viet Nam.
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  An absence of choice: the sexual exploitation of North Korean women in China

  Anti-Slavery International, 2005

  This report examines the situation of North Korean women who illegally escape to China in search of food and work.It finds that in China, the irregular status of undocumented North Korean women contributes to their vulnerability to sexual exploitation, including trafficking into forced marriage, the sex industry, as well as voluntary and quasi-voluntary arranged marriages.
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  Sending money home: a survey of remittance products and services in the United Kingdom

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of money transfer, and the coverage and customer service that banks, building societies and money transfer operators offer in the UK.
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  Beyond remittances: the role of diaspora in poverty reduction in their countries of origin

  Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2004

  This paper analyses the impact of established Diaspora on the reduction of poverty, and identifies ways in which policy interventions, especially from donors of official development assistance, might strengthen that impact.This paper specifically: examines the role of Diaspora in poverty reduction through four main areas of focus: policy and practice towards Diaspora on the part
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  China migration country study

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of the causes, impacts and implications of both internal migration within China and international migration from China, drawing on interviews with key researchers and policy advisors; a review of recent literature; and analysis of published and unpublished research data.Its main findings include that: in the late 1990s, China's cities had attracted close

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