Migration
- Environmental drivers of human mobility
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2010
- Environmental change is one of a larger set of factors that affect human migration and displacement worldwide. Climate change and variability will particularly affect migration in and from highly vulnerable areas like low-lying island...
- Is migration boosting human development?
- United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- This report explores how better policies towards human mobility can enhance human development. It lays out the case for governments to reduce restrictions on movement within and across their borders, so as to expand human choices and ...
- Circular migration - who benefits the most?
- P. Wickramasekara / Global Union Research Network, 2011
- ‘Circular migration’ has recently been promoted as a triple win solution, bringing benefits to destination countries, origin countries and migrant workers themselves, thus projecting it as a major mechanism to reap develop...
- Women’s labour migration in the context of globalisation
- A Franck; A Spehar / Women in Development Europe, 2010
- What are the current trends in women’s migration and why are they occurring? According to this study, globalisation has led to increased international migration. However, migrants often cannot enjoy the full protection of the ri...
- How to combat human trafficking
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2008
- With the tide of human trafficking rising rather than falling, the need for effective prevention policies is unquestionable. This toolkit updates and expands upon the UNODC toolkit of the same name published in 2006. It is intended to...
- Well being analysis of migrants from Latin America and Caribbean to the EU
- K. Wright-Revolledo / International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007
- International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU is important but has received relatively little attention and needs to be better understood. This paper provides a wellbeing analysis of international migrat...
- Stories and learning from alliance-based efforts to improve employment standards for women workers
- D. Dalton / Oxfam, 2007
- Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multipl...
- Perceived images of West African migration
- H. de Haas / International Organization for Migration, 2008
- The migrants themselves are commonly depicted as victims recruited by merciless and unscrupulous traffickers and smugglers. This paper highlights how due to this perceived image policy solutions usually involve fighting illegal immigr...
- The linkages between migration, remittances and social development
- H. de Haas / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2007
- This paper reviews the empirical literature on the relationship between remittances and various dimensions of social development in the developing world within a broader conceptual framework of migration and development theory. Empiri...
- Migration and economic development in Europe and Central Asia
- J. Black; L. Jones; M.C. Pantiru / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2007
- There are a number of ways in which migration may have significant links with poverty reduction and economic growth in the European and Central Asian region. This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and po...
- Environmental drivers of human mobility
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2010
- Environmental change is one of a larger set of factors that affect human migration and displacement worldwide. Climate change and variability will particularly affect migration in and from highly vulnerable areas like low-lying island...
- Is migration boosting human development?
- United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- This report explores how better policies towards human mobility can enhance human development. It lays out the case for governments to reduce restrictions on movement within and across their borders, so as to expand human choices and ...
- Circular migration - who benefits the most?
- P. Wickramasekara / Global Union Research Network, 2011
- ‘Circular migration’ has recently been promoted as a triple win solution, bringing benefits to destination countries, origin countries and migrant workers themselves, thus projecting it as a major mechanism to reap develop...
- Women’s labour migration in the context of globalisation
- A Franck; A Spehar / Women in Development Europe, 2010
- What are the current trends in women’s migration and why are they occurring? According to this study, globalisation has led to increased international migration. However, migrants often cannot enjoy the full protection of the ri...
- How to combat human trafficking
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2008
- With the tide of human trafficking rising rather than falling, the need for effective prevention policies is unquestionable. This toolkit updates and expands upon the UNODC toolkit of the same name published in 2006. It is intended to...
- Well being analysis of migrants from Latin America and Caribbean to the EU
- K. Wright-Revolledo / International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007
- International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU is important but has received relatively little attention and needs to be better understood. This paper provides a wellbeing analysis of international migrat...
- Stories and learning from alliance-based efforts to improve employment standards for women workers
- D. Dalton / Oxfam, 2007
- Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multipl...
- Perceived images of West African migration
- H. de Haas / International Organization for Migration, 2008
- The migrants themselves are commonly depicted as victims recruited by merciless and unscrupulous traffickers and smugglers. This paper highlights how due to this perceived image policy solutions usually involve fighting illegal immigr...
- The linkages between migration, remittances and social development
- H. de Haas / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2007
- This paper reviews the empirical literature on the relationship between remittances and various dimensions of social development in the developing world within a broader conceptual framework of migration and development theory. Empiri...
- Migration and economic development in Europe and Central Asia
- J. Black; L. Jones; M.C. Pantiru / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2007
- There are a number of ways in which migration may have significant links with poverty reduction and economic growth in the European and Central Asian region. This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and po...
- Immigration Policy Center (IPC), American Immigration Law Foundation
- Organisation analysing and reporting on topics affecting U.S. immigration policy.
- Multicultural Center Prague
- Czech multicultural centre
