Submitted by evan on Tue, 2010/09/14 - 15:22
This paper examines the expansion of export production for global supermarkets and its generation of new employment channels for internal rural-rural migrant workers in Africa. Yet analysis of migrant labour in the global economy tends to focus on rural-urban migration or the movement of workers across international borders. Internal migrant labourers work at the interface of the advancing commercialisation of global agriculture and of more traditional forms of rural livelihood generation.
Submitted by evan on Tue, 2010/09/14 - 15:22
This paper discusses the developed countries' immigration policies that have become increasingly skewed in favour of skilled migrants (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport 2003; OECD 2003) who, while bringing economic benefits, are also seen to assimilate more easily into their host societies. This trend has raised considerable concern among policy makers in developing countries, who are wary of having to bear the costs of educating skilled workers, only to loose the most entrepreneurial and talented of these to more developed countries.
Submitted by evan on Tue, 2010/09/14 - 15:22
This paper uses both quantitative and qualitative data from Ghana to explore the relationship between migration, legal status and poverty reduction. Drawing on analysis of the experiences of return migrants to Ghana. It is noted that the ‘legality’ of migration is complex, as different types of formal documentation are required for different countries, and at different stages of the migration process.
Submitted by evan on Tue, 2010/09/14 - 15:15
This paper provides an overview of migration and poverty in Kosovo, as part of a review on migration and poverty in three regions of Eastern Europe and Central Asia in 2006. The research included a review of available literature, and field-level discussions with policy-makers in Pristina in September 2006. The paper explores the context of poverty and development and general migration trends, before focusing on policies orientated towards migration management, and the broader impact of migration on poverty. It concludes with a number of policy recommendations.
Submitted by evan on Tue, 2010/09/14 - 15:15
The present document is a book examining the situation and refugee experiences of the thousands that fled the Communist take-over of Slovenia in 1945. The book draws from two diary accounts and on other primary sources from this period: one written by a 38-year old social insurance clerk who fled with his wife and two small children, the other written from the contrasting view-point of the people running the camps – the British Army, the Red Cross and Quaker relief workers, and UNRRA, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Submitted by evan on Tue, 2010/09/14 - 13:31
Includes a number of concerns regarding the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
Submitted by evan on Tue, 2010/09/14 - 13:30
Amnesty International learned of the death of a 30-year-old Sudanese national, Aamir Ageeb, during his forced deportation from Frankfurt airport to Khartoum on 28 May 1999. Aamir Ageeb is alleged to have died on the aeroplane in the presence of three officers from the federal border police (Bundesgrenzschutz). The organization wrote to the German authorities expressing the concern that the actions of the police officers may have contributed to his death.
Submitted by evan on Mon, 2010/09/13 - 18:41
For several years AI has been receiving allegations that German police officers have used excessive or unwarranted force in restraining or arresting people, or have deliberately subjected detainees in their custody to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The vast majority of the victims of ill-treatment have been foreign citizens, including asylum-seekers, or members of ethnic minorities.
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