Factsheet briefing on gender issues in migration and urbanisation as they relate to poverty Produced by UN Women as a supplementary briefing for the Consultative Group meeting 6 December 2011 Hanoi GENDER AND MIGRATION International context and standards: Michelle Bachelet‚ Executive Director of UN Women: “The absence of legal and social protections in many countries – and failure to implement and monitor gender-sensitive labour and migration laws where they exist – makes care workers vulnerable
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United Kingdom: A Reluctant Country of Immigration By Will Somerville‚ Migration Policy Institute Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah‚ Royal Commonwealth Society Maria Latorre‚ Institute for Public Policy Research July 2009 Immigration to the United Kingdom in the 21st century is larger and more diverse than at any point in its history. As the global recession bites‚ early evidence shows a reduction in the numbers of immigrants coming to work. However‚ fundamental dynamics indicate sustained net immigration
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Chen Wang a‚ *‚ Lincoln C. Wood b‚ Shu Fung Low a a b Faculty of Built Environment‚ University of Malaya‚ 50603 Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia School of Information Systems‚ Curtin University‚ Australia a b s t r a c t Keywords: Foreign worker Illegal migration Negative impact Construction market Over-dependence on foreign works Imposed levy Though foreign workers served to overcome the labor shortage in the Malaysian construction market‚ over-dependence on foreign workers and the negative impacts induced
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Bangladesh. It investigates the necessity for the migration of people‚ especially from a poor developing country like Bangladesh in terms of searching for better opportunities elsewhere. It examines the possibilities of why those émigrés return back to Bangladesh. And it researches the changes that living abroad might effect on a person‚ and how those changes may affect him or her as they try to resettle back to their previous life prior to the migration. The paper explores the difficulties they may
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Chapter 2 Review of Related Literature Introduction This chapter will discuss the relevant facts‚ information and principles that are related to the study gathered by the researchers from different sources. Incorporate with these materials and sources‚ researchers will be able to understand further and know better about the research topic. It will be also helpful to the researchers by providing some information of the methods used in the past conducted studies. In this chapter‚ researchers will
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‘If I’d known‚ I wouldn’t have come’ The importance of information in the migratory experience Diana Mata-Codesal Final Paper January 2006 Brighton‚ United Kingdom “If I´d known‚ I wouldn´t ha ve come” Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................ 2 2. Literature dealing with information ........................................................ 3 3. Migrants´ networks ............................................
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commented that international migration patterns have * changed as a consequence of broad social‚ political‚ economic‚ and environmental * trends and explained the causes of the driving forces were including war‚ * globalization‚ urbanization‚ and changing cultural norms regarding social roles and * responsibilities (Ross-Sheriff‚ 2011). With these complex trends of migration * patterns‚ Van Hear (2010) viewed migration as a process which was an integral
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Open Text - Based Assessment Summative Examination-II March 2014 Themes Page 1. A Tale from Hills 1 2. Migration 8 CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION Shiksha Kendra‚ 2‚ Community Centre‚ Preet Vihar‚ Delhi-110 092 India OPEN TEXT MATERIAL Social Science (087) : Class-IX 1. Theme – A tale from hills Abstract: The case study unfolds the story of Bansi; a boy who belonged to a small village in the hills of Nainital district of Uttrakhand. He later grows up in
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economic position is strongly contributed by the impacts of globalization. Despite the fact that there is no consensus on the degree to which the current globalization situation in China has constituted to the environmental changes‚ political and migration of people to China in search of greener pastures. These are a few of the selected sectors that have been affected in both positive and negative manner in China as a result of globalization. The biggest level of global environmental incorporation
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INDONESIAN WORKERS IN MACAU The Human Outcome of Colluding Interests Amy Sim and Vivienne Wee ABSTRACT: Presenting new
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