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New Migration DRC newsletter: December 2008

New training event: Return migration: Policy Options and Policy Effects, 13 January 2009

For a view on how financial crises can affect migration, see: SKELDON, R. 2004. ‘Migration, the Asian Financial Crisis and its Aftermath’ in Joly, D (ed) International Migration in the New Millennium. Ashgate: Aldershot, 57-74

New Book: Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter, edited by: Katarzyna Grabska and Lyla Mehta, November 2008

New Event Report: Migration and Social Protection: Exploring Issues of Portability and Access

New Event Report: Children on the Move in the Developing World: Sharing Research Findings

New Policy Briefings:
'Measuring the Migration-Development Nexus: An Overview of Available Data'

'Social Protection of Migrants from the Global South: Protection gaps and Strategies to 'Self-insure''

New Working Paper:
'
Demographics and Climate Change: Future Trends and their Policy Implications for Migration'

 


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  DRC Migration, Globalisation & Poverty


Promoting policies to maximise the benefits and minimise the risks of migration for poor people

The Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty was established in June 2003, in recognition of the complex Main imagerelationship between migration and poverty. The Migration DRC examines migration flows in which poor people themselves are most represented and how migration impacts variously on their livelihoods, rights and levels of social protection...
> About the Migration DRC

 
Key Themes
Modelling Causes and
Consequences
Links between Migrations
Rural Poverty and Livelihoods
Social Protection
Gender and Generations
Health and Education
Rights
 
Types of Migration
Internal Migration
Global Labour Mobility
Child Migration
Skilled Migration
Forced Migration
Return Migration
 
  Regions
 

Global Partners
The Migration DRC was established as a partnership between institutions in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. Together, we undertake the research, capacity building and dialogue necessary for evidence-based and pro-poor migration policies. Following a focus on DFID priority countries in 2008-2009, Migration DRC research will concentrate on Bangladesh and Ghana.
> Migration DRC partners

Publications
Based on ongoing research, the Migration DRC publishes a number of working papers and briefings, all available to download on this site:
> Migration DRC Working Papers
> Migration DRC Briefing Papers
> Migration DRC Newsletters

News/Events
Read about forthcoming DRC workshops and conferences and other key international events related to migration and poverty issues.
> Migration DRC news and events

RESOURCE GUIDES
Migration & Development
> Migration in National Surveys
> Migration & Climate Change

 
           
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