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  Bangladesh - Rohingya emergency vulnerability assessment, December 2017

  World Food Programme, 2017

  Cox’s Bazar districts registered, since 25 August, a large influx of Rohingya refugees fleeing violence and human rights violations. Not only has the pace of new arrivals made this the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world, the concentration of refugees in Cox’s Bazar is the highest in the world.
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  Examining the impact of climate change on migration through the agricultural Channel: evidence from district level panel data from Bangladesh

  South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2014

  This paper studies how changes in climatic variables such as temperature and rainfall impact migration through agriculture. The researchers use district level data for 3 inter-census periods to analyse historical migration related outcomes. We find that fluctuations in temperature and rainfall contributed to a decline in agricultural productivity as measured by revenues from agriculture.
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  Housing and land rights: the camp dwelling Urdu-speaking community in Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011

  There are about 16,0000 Urdu-speaking Muslim people in Bangladesh living in 161 camps since 1971. They are also called Biharis or stranded Pakistanis as they emigrated from various Indian states during partition in 1947. They supported the Pakistani army in the liberation war of Bangladesh and consequently labeled as traitors or Pakistani collaborators.
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  Climate change and flow of environmental displacement in Bangladesh

  Unnayan Onneshan, 2009

  This study depicts environmental displacement with the premise of increased frequency of natural disasters and the adverse impacts of climate change. Bangladesh is already experiencing recurrent floods, severe cyclones, water logging, salinity intrusions, droughts and river bank erosion which induce mass population displacement.
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  Demographics and climate change: future trends and their policy implications for migration

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008

  This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps that could be plugged with appropriate new research.
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  Marginalised migrant workers and social protection

  Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007

  This paper reports on a two-day workshop on marginalised migrant workers and social protection issues held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in October 2006. The workshop was organised by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit in Bangladesh and its partner, the Development Research Centre (DRC) on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, based at the University of Sussex, Brighton.
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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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  Internal migration and the development nexus: the case of Bangladesh

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper reviews the relationships between migration and development in Bangladesh, focussing on conditions and entitlements in the labour market and the consequences of migration, including remittances and their effects on poverty and inequality.