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The Netherlands: Discrimination in the Name of Integration  new

n the past years, the authorities in the Netherlands have introduced a series of measures with the stated aim of better integrating its migrant population. One of these measures is the integration test administered to would-be family migrants from some countries before they can join spouses or family members in the Netherlands. This report documents how the overseas integration test is discriminatory...

http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/2008/netherlands0508/

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'Brain Drain' Dossier - SciDev.Net

Efforts to counteract the emigration of highly skilled personnel remain hotly pursued around the world. But while some countries suffer the consequences of the so-called "brain drain", others are beginning to reap its potential benefits. This dossier provides news, analysis, commentary and background information on the current situation.

http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierItem&Dossier=10

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2004 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development--Women and International Migration

The migration of women has always been an important component of international migration. As of 2000, 49 per cent of all international migrants were women or girls, and the proportion of females among international migrants had reached 51 per cent in more developed regions. A gender perspective is essential to understanding both the causes and consequences of international migration. This report sets out recommendations that, if adopted, will improve the situation of migrant, refugee and trafficked women (Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, 2006).

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/public/WorldSurvey2004-Women&Migration.pdf

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A Price Too High: The cost of Australia's approach to Asylum Seekers

This report by Oxfam and A Just Australia, presents new research that shows that, since 2001, it has cost the Australian taxpayer more than $500,000 per person to process fewer than 1,700 asylum seekers in Nauru, Manus and Christmas Island. This compares with estimates from the Australian Government's Department of Immigration and Citizenship which suggests that the cost of holding asylum seekers in a mainland Australian detention centre is only 3.5% of the running costs of the Pacific Solution. The report also details the health and other costs born by the asylum seekers detained as part of the 'Pacific Solution'.

http://www.oxfam.org.au/media/files/APriceTooHigh.pdf

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African migration: from tensions to solutions

While industrial countries are promoting easier flows of capital, goods and services, they are at the same time restricting the movement of labour, which comes mainly from developing countries. Developing countries view this as a double standard, especially since labour is an important factor in the production of goods and services. (Africa Renewal, U.N. Department of Public Information, January 2006)

http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol19no4/194migration.html

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Agri-food Industry's Deadly Cycle Feeds Immigration

Just weeks before the elections, Congress is unable to agree on legislation regarding the nation's 12 million undocumented immigrants. Remarkably, not one single U.S. lawmaker has addressed how US policies force people to cross the border every year looking for work. The region's fragile soils were damaged under the Green Revolution's intensive fertilizer regimes. When the World Bank and the IMF imposed structural adjustment programs in the 1980s, government loans, marketing programs, and agricultural extension services disappeared overnight. Then the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and its Central American cousin, CAFTA, flooded local grain markets with cheap corn, subsidized by U.S. taxpayers and sold below cost of production. Desperate to feed their families, dreaming of a better life, small farmers send their able-bodied family members to the United States to look for work. The lion's share of the remittances they send home is spent on processed food packed with high-calorie corn syrup, produced and distributed by the agri-food industry. (Eric Holt-Gimenez, IRC, 17 October 2006)

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3614

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Asia Pacific Migration Research Network

The APMRN was established in 1995 as a research project of the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme of UNESCO. The APMRN is a collaborative organisation of researchers and scholars interested in all aspects of migration. Each regional network of the APMRN is autonomous and there are regional coordinators in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, the Pacific (based in Fiji), Taiwan (unofficial member), Thailand and Vietnam.

http://apmrn.anu.edu.au/index.html

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Assuring development gains and poverty reduction from trade: the labour mobility and skills trade dimension [pdf]

This study examines the impact of global labor movement on trade, development and poverty reduction and asks how temporary labor mobility can be better managed to improve people's lives and to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.(UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),March 2008)

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Download.asp?docid=9685&lang=1&intItemID=2068

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Attention Immigrants: Thanks for Your Hard Work. Now Leave.

What Could Be Better For Business Than A Workforce That Toils For Next To Nothing, Drives Down Wages For Everyone Else, Can't Protest or Unionize, Then Goes Away When You're Done With Them? Your Guide To The Guest Worker Program. (James Ridgeway, Common Dreams, 26 May 2007)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/26/1470/

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Bolivian Community in Buenos Aires Divided Over Sweatshops

The Buenos Aires city government's new offensive against slave labour has resulted in the closure of 30 clandestine textile sweatshops in the Argentine capital. But it has also caused divisions in the Bolivian immigrant community: some denounce the exploitative labour conditions, while others desperately want to keep their jobs, however precarious. (6 April 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32800

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Caught Between Two Hells [pdf]

This report documents female migrant workers' experiences. The Burmese Women's Union (BWU) researchers conducted 149 interviews with women and girl migrants working in Thailand and China between November 2006 and March 2007. (Burmese Women's Union, 2007)

http://www.truemail.co.th/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.womenofburma.org%2FReport%2FCaught%2520between%2520two%2520hells.pdf

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Exploring the Linkages between Children's Independent Migration and Education: Evidence from Ghana [pdf]

Migrating for education is an insufficiently stressed aspect in the literature on children's independent migration and it is frequently assumed that migration undermines children's educational opportunities. What little research has been done suggests that the link between children's migration and education is very context-specific. In this paper the linkages between children's independent migration and education -- formal and non-formal -- is explored in a specific context by drawing on interviews with young migrants who have moved from rural, farming households in northern Ghana to rural and urban households in central and southern Ghana. The paper illustrates how, in contrast to the positive light in which education is usually presented, the findings of this research suggests a more ambiguous and complex picture, and illuminates both positive and negative aspects of the linkages between child migration and education. (Iman M. Hashim, Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, August 2005)

http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/working_papers/WP-T12.pdf

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Forced Migration Online (FMO)

Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users.

http://www.forcedmigration.org/

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Head of African Union attacks 'brain trade'

The president of the African Union has attacked the 'selective immigration' policies of developed countries that draw scientists and other skilled workers away from developing countries. Speaking on Monday (3 April) in Algiers, Algeria, at the opening of an African Union meeting on migration and development, Alpha Oumar Konare said these policies amount to a "brain trade" that hinders African development. (Wagdy Sawahel, SciDev.Net, 5 April 2006)

http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2768&language=1

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In Mexico, 'people do really want to stay'

Already much of Mexico's farm country has been overwhelmed by an influx of crops from the United States in the years following the North American Free Trade Agreement. In the next two years, the final provisions of the trade pact kick in, opening Mexico to unlimited imports of poultry from its northern neighbor. Mexican farms will compete directly with an American agribusiness nurtured by subsidies on the corn that feeds the birds. Inevitably, the number of illegal immigrants to the US will increase. (Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post, 14 January 2007)

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/insight/01/14/14mexiconafta.html

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Inside the detention centres

This section of the Australia-based Refugee Action Committee website covers news and information about the situation for asylum seekers and refugees inside Australia's detention centres, as well as in Nauru.

http://www.refugeeaction.org/inside/inside.htm

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International Organization for Migration (IOM)

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society.

http://www.iom.int/

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Managing Migration Means Potential EU Complicity in Neighboring States' Abuse of Migrants and Refugees

Current EU migration polices are largely focused on keeping migrants and asylum seekers outside EU borders. However, these policies have failed to ensure that the rights of migrants and asylum seekers are respected, particularly in neighboring transit countries to the east or across the Mediterranean. (Human Rights Watch, October 2006)

http://hrw.org/backgrounder/eca/eu1006/

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Migrant Women

June 2003 By Ana Elena Obando, WHRnet. This article summarizes the many problems migrant women face, including legal problems encountered at the international level. It provides latest statistics on women and migration, and discusses relevant international instruments and mechanisms.

http://www.whrnet.org/docs/issue-migrantwomen.html

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MIGRATION AND CHRONIC POVERTY (pdf file)

Uma Kothari March 2002 Institute for Development Policy and Management University of Manchester Working Paper No 16. This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an analysis of social relations and processes of exclusion, and the ways in which these are structured around poverty-related capitals. While livelihood strategies are diverse and multiple, for many poor people, migration represents a central component of these. This paper explores how research can be carried out to examine the characteristics of those who move and those who stay, the processes by which they are compelled or excluded from adopting migration as a livelihood strategy and the circumstances under which migration sustains chronic poverty or presents an opportunity to move out of poverty.

http://www.chronicpoverty.org/pdfs/16Kothari.pdf#search=%22MIGRATION%20AND%20CHRONIC%20POVERTY%20%22

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Mobilizing Talent for Global Developments [pdf]

The study calls for a renewed perspective on the impact of brain drain in developing countries. The study indicates that talent mobility can bring benefits both to host and source countries. (by Andrés Solimano, United Nations University- World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), April 2008)

http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/policy-briefs/en_GB/unupb7-2006/_files/78807313311007385/default/pb7-2006-talent.pdf

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OHCHR and Migration

The position of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is that human rights are at the heart of migration and should be at the forefront of any discussion on migration management and policies. A comprehensive international framework exists and mechanisms have been created in order to monitor States' compliance in promoting and respecting human rights of migrants.

http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/migration/taskforce/index.htm

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Poverty, International Migration and Asylum (pdf)

In recent years, the issues of international migration and asylum have risen to the top of the international agenda. The pressures and opportunities linked to the process of globalization have led to an increase in the number of people moving from one country and continent to another. At the same time, insecurity and armed conflict in many of the world's poorest and economically marginalized states have triggered new waves of displaced people. This WIDER Policy Brief explores the different options available for overcoming problems associated with migration, examining issues such as the liberalizing migration policies; protecting refugees in regions of origin; addressing the root causes of migration and refugee flows; influencing perceptions of the costs and benefits of migration; and developing international migration management. While none of these options provides a panacea to the challenges of migration and asylum, they might in combination lead to a more effective and equitable international response to the issue of human mobility.

http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/pb8.pdf

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Protect the rights of all migrants in South Korea

Migrant workers in South Korea are often subjected to human rights abuses by unscrupulous employers as well as by the government. They are denied rights at work, freedom of association, freedom of movement and the right to liberty and security of person. Restrictions are placed on their freedom of movement and they are denied the right to form trade unions. Urge the Prime Minister to change this situation.

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/kor-181206-action-eng

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Protecting Migrant Workers in a Globalized World

In the economic sphere, globalization is not only characterized by liberalization of trade, services, investment, and capital, but also by transnational movements of people in search of better lives and employment opportunities elsewhere. (Migration Information Source, March 1 2005 By Ryszard Cholewinski)

http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=293

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