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Migration

From November 2007 this Hot Topic will be simmering, with less frequent updates

SLAs can provide a vital lens with which to examine migration strategies and contexts.

The materials and discussions in this section outline the current work being done on migration and how SLAs contribute towards this.Migration Hot Topic


Migration Events
Crossing Borders: Evaluating the Impact of Remittances on Development in Latin America
Location: Canning House, London
Date: 11 March 2008
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Migration, Poverty and Development
Locations: Brighton,UK/ Naironi, Kenya/Bangkok, Thailand
Date: From April 2007

International Workshop: Desertification, Migration and Local Development
Location: Tripoli, Libya
Date: 26 - 28 November 2007
Migration and Social protection in China
Location: Beijing
Date: 25-26 September 2007
 
  Past Migration Events includes reports, fact sheets, papers and final statements
Remittances During Crises: Implications for Humanitarian Response
Overseas Development Institute
Location: London, UK
Dates: 25 July
Remittances and Access to Finance - 2nd International Confernce on Migrant Remittances
World Bank and UK Department for International Development (DFID)
Location: London, UK
Date: 13-14 November 2006
High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development
(United Nations General Assembly, New York, U.S.A.)
14-15 September 2006
DFID Migration Seminars (2002-3)
Further details on the Migration Programme Seminar Series, from the Sustainable Livelihoods Support Office (SLSO) and the Asia Regional Economics and Policy Department (ASREP) at DFID. Reports from each seminar are also available to download.

Migration and Poverty Reduction Policy
Papers and briefings produced by DFID's Migration Team, Policy Division HTML
 
Papers on Migration
Rural Employment and Migration: In search of decent work
ODI Briefing Paper. October 2007 PDF
Migration & Development Linkage in Sri Lanka: A Post-Tsunami and Civil Conflict Approach
Andrea Gallina. Roskilde University. 2007
PDF
Migration & Development Linkage in Ecuador
Andrea Gallina. Roskilde University. 2007 PDF
Iraq's Displacement Crisis: The Search for Solutions
Forced Migration Review Special Issue HTML
The Impact of International Migration on the
Economic Development of Countries in the Mediterranean Basin
PDF
HIV and people on the move: Risk and vulnerabilities of migrants and mobile populations in Southern Africa. Summary report of the structured discussion on AF-AIDS eForum, April August 2005, Health and Development Networks, 2006. PDF
How Can the Rural Poor Participate in Global Economic Processes? J.Farrington and J.Mitchell, 2006. ODI. PDF
Afghan Transnational Networks: Looking Beyond Repatriation Alessandro Monsutti. AREU. 2006 HTML
Continued Protection, Sustainable Reintegration: Afghan Refugees and Migrants in Iran M.J. Abbasi-Shavazi and D.Glazebrook.AREU. 2006 HTML
Implementing Homestead Plot Programmes: Experience from India. Robin Nielsen, Tim Hanstad and Leonard Rolfes. Rural Development Institute 2006 HTML
Social Networks and Migration: Far West Nepalese Labour Migrants in Delhi. Susan Theime. University of Bern 2006 HTML

Migration for Hard Work: A Reluctant Livelihood Strategy for Poor Households in West Bengal, India. Abdur Rafique, Deeptima Massey and Ben Rogally. University of Sussex 2006 HTML

Internal Migration, Poverty and Development in Asia. Priya Deshingkar. ODI Briefing Paper 2006 PDF
The effects of food aid on household migration patterns and implications for emergency food assessments. Laura Hammond, Jennifer Bush, Kevin Savage and Paul Harvey. Food Economy Group and Overseas Development Institute. 2005 PDF
Engaging Diasporas: How Governments and Development Agencies Can Support Diaspora Involvement in the Development of Origin Countries. Hein de Haas. IMI. 2006 PDF
Migration of Fishermen in Srikakulam District: A Study by ICM and SIFFS. S. Bhaskara Sarma and Venkatesh Salagrama. 2004. DOC
Continued Protection, Sustainable Reintegration: Afghan Refugees and Migrants in Iran. M.J. Abbasi-Shavazi and D. Glazebrook. AREU. 2006 PDF
Tackling Poverty-Migration Linkages: Evidence from Ghana and Egypt
Rachel-Sabates Wheeler, Ricardo Sabates, Adriana Castaldo. Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty. 2005. PDF
Migration, the Informal Sector and Poverty: Some Indian Evidence
Inder Pal Singh Ahluwalia, ips_ahluwalia@yahoo.com
International Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2005. PDF
Children and Adolescents in Sahrawi and Afghan Refugee Households: Living with the Effects of Prolonged Armed Conflict and Forced Migration - lessons learned report (Refugee Studies Centre / 2005) PDF
Migration in the Middle East and Mediterranean - A Regional Study prepared for the Global Commission on International Migration
(Martin Baldwin-Edwards / 2005) PDF 1.65MB
Return to Afghanistan? A Study of Afghans Living in Mashhad and Return to Afghanistan? PDF A Study of Afghans Living in Zahedan PDF (Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tehran / 2005)
Gender and Migration (Bridge Development -Gender Report/ Susie Jolly/ Haxel Reeves/ 2005) HTML
Refugee Livelihoods - Confronting uncertainty and responding to adversity: Mozambican war refugees in Limpopo Province,
South Africa.
(Frederick Golooba-Mutebi / University of the Witwatersrand / 2004) PDF
Bound for the City: A Study of Rural to Urban Labour Migration in Afghanistan (Aftab Opel / Afganistan Research Evaluation Unit / 2005) PDF 1MB

Conflict in the Great Lakes region - How is it Linked with Land and Migration? (Chris Huggins / Herman Musahara / Prisca Mbura Kamungi / Johnstone Summit Oketch / Koen Vlassenroot/ Oversears Development Institute / 2005) PDF

Defining, Measuring and Influencing Sustainable Return (Briefing / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty / July 2005) PDF
2004 World Survey on the Role of Women in Migration (UN, 2005) PDF 1.32MB
Livelihood Outcomes of Migration for Poor People (Clare Waddington / Sussex Centre for Migration Research / 2003) PDF  
Afghans in Karachi: Migration, Settlement and Social Networks (Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit / March 2005) PDF
Transnational Networks: Recognising a Regional Reality (Elca Stigter / Alessandro Monsutti / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit /April 2005) PDF
Refugees and local hosts: A livelihoods approach to local integration and repatriation (ID21 Insights #44 / Oliver Bakewell / 2004) HTML
Sustainable Livelihoods and Migration in Vietnam: The Importance of Social Capital as Access to Resources
(Alexandra Winkels / W. Neil Adger / University of Hohenheim / 2002) Find
Sustainable livelihoods: seeds of success? (Forced Migration Review- Issues 20 / May 2004) (PDF) 1.60MB
Seasonal Migration for Livelihoods in India: Coping, Accumulation and Exclusion (Priya Deshingkar; Daniel Start / ODI/ 2003) (HTML)

Refugee Research Series (UNHCR) Working papers on refugee livelihoods. (HTML)

Migration and Mobility (IMM Ltd.) Migration and mobility in the coast in South Asia has long been part of livelihood strategies of the coastal poor. (PDF)
Migration and Poverty (Ronald Skeldon / Asia-Pacific Population Journal / 2002) Also in Spanish (Word) Spanish flag
While recognising that relationships between migration and poverty are ambivalent, this paper aims to sketch likely scenarios that are the result of poverty influencing migration and vice versa (PDF)
Migration and Chronic Poverty (Uma Kothari / CPRC / 2002)
An overview of the relationship between chronic poverty and processes of migration. (PDF)
Migrants, livelihoods, and rights: The relevance of migration in development policies (Arjan de Haan / DFID / 2000) (PDF)
A background paper that aims to inform development policy debates with an improved understanding of migration.
Remittances and Migration
Behind the Mask of Remittances
Pambazuka News Feature. Firoze Manji 2007 NEW
Remittances During Crises: Implication for Humanitarian Response Overseas Development Institute Humanitarian Policy Group. Report and Briefing Paper May 2007
Study on Improving the Efficiency of Workers' Remittances in Mediterranean Countries study report
Remittances: What Role do they Play in Migrant Livelihood Strategies? - introduction, papers and organisational links on remittances.
Sending Money Home’: UK government launches first ever survey of money transfer products - background, full report, summary and web link.

International Conference on Remittances: London, October 2003 - Conference note, papers, case studies, speeches and presentations.

Migrant Remittances Newsletter
Nov 2007- Latest Issue DOC NEW
Working Together with the Diaspora: A New Direction for International Development Cooperation? - Conference plenary, papers, and conclusion.

Organisations on Migration
International Migration Institute Linking micro level of understanding of migration to macro level trends (HTML)
Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM) Provides a series of research papers entitled "Global Migration Perspectives" (HTML)
Forced Migration Online (FMO) resource page on livelihoods highlights documents, journal articles, web resources and organisations working on livelihoods issues. (HTML)
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty Investigates impacts of migration on poverty and livelihoods (HTML)  Newsletter PDF UPDATED

Refugee Livelihoods Project (UNHCR) Project seeks to understand refugee livelihoods strategies and assess the effectiveness of different livelihoods interventions. HTML
Refugee Livelihoods Network (RLN) Newsletters HTML



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