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Center for Global Development (CGDEV)

The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries

This paper finds that emigration rises on average as GDP per capita initially rises in poor countries, slowing after roughly US$5,000 at purchasing power parity, and reversing after roughly $10,000.

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18 août 2020

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Working Paper

Durable solutions for indigenous migrants and refugees in the context of the Venezuelan flow in Brazil

This report updates and qualifies the discussion on the migration of indigenous people from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the Federative Republic of Brazil. To this end, it problematizes the traditional concept of “durable solutions” in the literature on migration and asylum and offers a...

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12 août 2020

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UN Network on Migration in Turkmenistan Terms of Reference (TOR)

The United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Turkmenistan initiated a UNMN at the country level to facilitate effective, timely and coordinated UN system-wide actions supporting the Government of Turkmenistan in implementing objectives set forth in the GCM and in line with the priorities of...

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07 août 2020

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United Nations (UN)

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International Migration and Development: Report of the Secretary-General for the 75th Session of the General Assembly

The present report was prepared in response to General Assembly resolution 73/241. Section II presents the latest global levels and trends in international migration. Section III discusses recent activities, undertaken by entities of the United Nations system, to support countries in integrating...

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05 août 2020

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United Nations (UN)

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Humanitarian Border Management

IOM’s Immigration and Border Management (IBM) Division works closely with the Migration Health Division (MHD) and other departments to provide immediate as well as mid- and long-term technical assistance for the immigration, border and consular officials of concerned Member States in order to help...

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04 août 2020

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India-EU Migration Governance: Maximizing the Development Impact of Migration and Mobility

The brief is offering a snapshot of the positive contribution of migration and demonstrates how strengthening strategic diaspora engagement is key to maximising the development impact of migration, as outlined in the India-EU Common Agenda on Migration and Mobility (CAMM). Indian migration plays an...

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04 août 2020

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Policy Brief

Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility

This book explores the realities, experiences and discourses of highly-skilled migrants, thereby examining the divides between those from the Global South and North.

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04 août 2020

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Springer

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Time for a reset: Implications for child migration policies arising from COVID-19

This paper is part of a series of short “think pieces” by IOM’s Migration Research High Level Advisers on the potential changes, impacts and implications for migration and mobility arising from COVID-19. Designed to spark thinking on policy and programmatic responses to COVID-19 as the impacts...

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01 août 2020

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Analysis

Integrating Migration into COVID-19 Socio-economic Response: A Toolkit for Development Partners

This Toolkit provides information and tools for development partners to integrate migration – in all its forms – into development‐centred plans, programmes and projects linked to COVID‑19 socio‐economic response. The Toolkit is framed around the pillars of the “UN Framework for the Immediate Socio...

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01 août 2020

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IOM Migration Health Assessment Programmes (HAP) – Pre-Migration Health Activities

This information sheet gives an overview over the different pre-migration health activities IOM provides, as well as other HAP services. Further HAP information sheets exist also on vaccination services and response to COVID-19.

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01 août 2020

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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

What Works to Protect Children on the Move

Approximately 50 million children can be considered ‘on the move’. Of these approximately 13 million are child refugees, 936,000 are asylum-seeking children, and 17 million children have been forcibly displaced inside their own country (Bhabha and Abel, 2019; International Organization for Migration...

Date of publication:

30 juillet 2020

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

‘On this journey, no one cares if you live or die’ Abuse, protection, and justice along routes between East and West Africa and Africa’s Mediterranean coast

This report draws on data collected by the Mixed Migration Centre’s 4Mi monitors along the route to map the places where migrants interviewed in 2018 and 2019 most frequently reported deaths and other human rights violations. The recommendations included in this report call for measures to hold...

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30 juillet 2020

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Enhancing Africa’s Response to Transnational Organized Crime (ENACT)

Human smuggling in Africa: the creation of a new criminalised economy?

Governments need to ensure responses to migration and human smuggling don’t make it more dangerous for migrants and more lucrative for criminals. Mobility has been a key facet of resilience across much of the African continent throughout its history, and those on the move have long relied on the...

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27 juillet 2020

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The Future of Migration to Europe: A systematic review of the literature on migration scenarios and forecasts

Effective migration management requires some degree of anticipation of the magnitude and nature of future flows. In response to these needs, two types of approaches have emerged in the literature in recent years: (a) migration forecasts and (b) migration scenarios. This report presents the results...

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23 juillet 2020

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COVID-19 impacts on the labour migration and mobility of young women and girls in South-East Asia and the Pacific

This paper explores the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on labour migration and mobility of young women and girls in South-East Asia and the Pacific. Building on the research report “Supporting Brighter Futures: Young Women and Girls and Labour Migration in South-East Asia and the Pacific”...

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23 juillet 2020

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Note on the Implementation, Follow-up and Review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Ensuring meaningful engagement of civil society and all relevant stakeholders for regional reviews

This note from the UN Network on Migration outlines the principles that shall underpin meaningful engagement with civil society and other relevant stakeholders in the regional reviews and preparatory processes in the context of the GCM.

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23 juillet 2020

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UN Network on Migration

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E-International Relations

State-Building, Sovereignty and Migration Management in the Global South

An overview of how migration management regimes have evolved as states have sought to establish, consolidate, and leverage their sovereignty, in the context of the Global South.

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22 juillet 2020

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Journal Article

Cross Border Human Mobility Amid and After COVID-19

The paper sets out initial findings and scenarios regarding the future of cross-border human mobility, including measures that will be needed to ensure that no person, or country, is left behind.

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21 juillet 2020

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Policy Brief

Report on ending immigration detention of children and seeking adequate reception and care for them

In the report, the Special Rapporteur examines the international legal framework protecting the human rights of migrant children, in particular regarding their right to liberty as well as to adequate reception, care and protection. The report reviews the impact of immigration detention on children...

Date of publication:

20 juillet 2020

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UN General Assembly

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