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Local government and cross border migration

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What are the issues around local government and cross border migration? This document examines service provision for migrants and concludes by suggesting that local government need to recognise that migration is an integral aspect of communities.

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Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration: ( M. Couldrey;M. Herson / , 2008); In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming ...
Security ,Stability and Development- a guide for the Great Lakes Pact: ( D. Clancy;O. Bueno;K. Ridderbos / Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre , 2008); The Great Lakes region has one of the largest displaced populations in the whole world with about two million refugees and ten million IDPs. Most of these displacements are due to violent co...
Focusing on the health risk behaviour of migrant workers and its influence on the HIV epidemic in the semi arid tropics of Andhra Pradesh: ( B V J. Gandhi;M C S. Bantilan;D. Parthasarathy / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2008); This paper discusses the livelihood dynamics in the fragile landscape of the semi arid tropics of Andhra Pradesh. The area is home to the poorest of the poor who live in conditions of persis...
Indian men employed in London's hospitality sector: ( A. Batnitzky;L. Mcdowell;S. Dyer / School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford , 2008); The migration of middle-class Indian men working in the hospitality sector in west London illustrates the intersection of gender and social class in organising both who migrates and what types of l...
Child perspectives on migration: ( Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex , 2008); Much of the recent research on child migration has focused on children who face particularly dire situations, including those who are coerced into migration and face highly exploitative conditions ...
How should aid funding respond to African urbanisation?: ( M. Herrmann;H. Khan / Munich Personal RePEc Archive , 2008); Rapid urbanisation is a fact of life even in the least developed countries where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to co...
Realistic planning for future urban growth calls for explicit consideration of the needs of the poor: ( United Nations Population Fund , 2008); In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half the world's population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. Many of the ne...
Internal displacement in Azerbaijan: ( Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre , 2008); Almost 15 years after signing a ceasefire agreement, Azerbaijan and Armenia have yet to resolve the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. In the absence of a peace agreement, some 570,000 internally disp...
Addressing the needs and rights of those affected by riverbank erosion in Bangladesh: ( C., R. Abrar;S., N. Azad / Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh , 2007); Each year, tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh are internally displaced as a consequence of riverbank erosion. Yet, such erosion does not draw the attention of policy makers in the same way t...
Local government and cross-border migration: ( T. Polzer / The Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand , 2008); Local government is finally beginning to examine the issues around cross-border migration with several metro municipalities in South Africa recently developing independent policies related to migra...