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Migration, brokerage, precarity and agency
University of Sussex, UK, 2019Globally, brokerage is widespread in migrant labour markets. Brokers fill the gap between migrants and the countries or places they are travelling to, and help migrants traverse complex immigration systems, border controls and labour markets.NewsSussex research findings continue to influence policy on migration and poverty
17 Dec 2019: After nearly a decade, the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium (MOOP) is drawing to a close, having conducted research in more than ten countries in an effort to uncover how and why migration plays such a significant role in poverty reduction in some contexts, but not in others.DocumentModern slavery prevention and responses in South Asia: An evidence map
2018The Asia Pacific region has the highest numbers of both slavery and child labour victims in the world.DocumentVulnerabilities in urban protracted displacement: exploring the roles of space and time
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018This Operational Practice Paper explores how better understandings of the ways in which the functioning of cities as systems interacts with the vulnerabilities, exposure to risks and ultimately, wellbeing of vulnerable communities can inform more effective humanitarian and development practice.DocumentBangladesh - Rohingya emergency vulnerability assessment, December 2017
World Food Programme, 2017Cox’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.DocumentThe urbanisation-construction- migration nexus in 5 cities in south Asia
LSE Research Online, 2015This briefing note is the outcome of a DFID-SARH commissioned research project (March 2014 – October 2015) on the “Urbanisation-Construction-Migration NeDocumentGendered practices of remittances in Bangladesh: a poststructuralist perspective
Migrating out of Poverty, 2016Bangladesh belongs to the top-ten remittance-receiving countries of the world with a yearly earning of US$15 billion. Comprising around ninety percent of the Bangladeshi overseas labour flow, men leave behind their spouses and children due to the high cost of migration and laws within the destination country.DocumentThe micro level impact of foreign remittances on incomes in Bangladesh: a measurement approach using the propensity score
Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008The importance of foreign remittances in the economy of Bangladesh is widely recognised and requires little reiteration. Along with the readymade garment (RMG) sector and non-farm activities in the agricultural sector, remittances have been identified as one of the three key factors that have been responsible for reducing the overall incidence of poverty in Bangladesh.DocumentExamining 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, 2014This 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.DocumentClimate and Development Outlook: Bangladesh Special Edition
Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014This bulletin features a range of recent results and learning from the Climate & Development Knowledge Network’s (CDKN’s) programme to strengthen climate resilient development in Bangladesh.Pages