Knowledge Platform

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Working Paper

Men and boys in displacement: assistance and protection challenges for unaccompanied boys and men in refugee contexts

This report addresses a gap in the existing literature on gender and migration by highlighting the situation facing single male refugees. In particular, it focuses on the context of unaccompanied adolescent boys in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Greece, with the aim of identifying potential gaps in...

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01 January 2017

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Promundo

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Women on the move: Migration, care work and health

This report looks at women migrant care workers who provide home-based personal care, whose work is increasingly in demand as ageing in industrialized economies intensifies. Its findings show that despite their contributions to global public health, the workers themselves are exposed to many health...

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01 January 2017

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Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Training Manual (Facilitators’ Guide)

This guide offers a training manual for policymakers dealing with environmental migration on the national or regional level. For further information about the manual, including access, please find contact information on the resource page.

Date of publication:

01 January 2017

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

Protection-Sensitive Entry Systems (Chapter 3)

This training manual provides guidance on Protection-Sensitive Entry Systems which has a broader meaning than the commonly used term “border control” and captures the fact that migration policies and strategies regulating access to territory have undergone significant changes and now include...

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01 January 2017

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Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A global review of the emerging evidence base (Volume I)

The report brings together that important evidence collected by academics, private research companies, authorities and investigative journalists on the transnational crime aspects of migrant smuggling, including on routes, smuggling organization (such as criminal networking and facilitation)...

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01 January 2017

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Migration Policy Centre (MPC)

Defining human smuggling in migration research: An appraisal and critique

The terms migrant smuggling and human trafficking are often used synonymously in public discussions and the media, but are distinct categories in international law and academic research. This article provides a critical discussion of the representation of human smuggling in academic research, by...

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31 December 2016

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Working Paper

Refugee Protection and Mixed Migration: The 10-Point Plan in Action 2016 Update

The 10-Point Plan in Action provides examples of how different stakeholders have made use of the 10-Point Plan of Action as a strategic tool to inform the development of immigration and asylum systems and to improve their operational responses. It includes an extensive collection of recent...

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31 December 2016

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

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Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons

Pivoting toward the Evidence: Building effective counter- trafficking responses using accumulated knowledge and a shared approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning

This paper seeks to construct a common framework for aligning goals, defining and assessing progress, and building a robust and shared evidence- base of effective anti-trafficking programmes and practices. It suggests a road map for capturing and using knowledge accumulated in the sector and beyond...

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31 December 2016

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Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons

Providing Effective Remedies for Victims of Trafficking in Persons

This issue paper highlights that access to remedies for trafficking victims should be a core component of efforts to address human trafficking and provides illustrative examples of effective remedies and limitations that currently exist in different jurisdictions. Effective access to remedies is...

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31 December 2016

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Rights-based Approach to Programming

A handbook developed to introduce those working on migration programming to a rights-based approach. Modules provide an overview of relevant international laws and how the rights accorded therein should be integrated into different stages of programming.

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31 December 2016

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

Vulnerability Screening Tool

Screening tool for identifying and addressing situations of vulnerability intended to help guide and inform frontline workers and decision-makers in the context of asylum and migration procedures and systems

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31 December 2016

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United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Housing at the Center: Inclusive urban development, inclusive housing policies, affordable housing, integrated housing and urban development

‘Housing at the Centre’ aims to shift the focus from simply building houses to a holistic framework for housing development, orchestrated with urban planning practice and placing people and human rights at the forefront of urban sustainable development.

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31 December 2016

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International Labour Organization (ILO)

Towards a framework for fair and effective integration of migrants into the labour market

This paper takes stock of the broad issues involved in the labour market integration of immigrants in G20 countries, as well as of the policies at hand to free their full potential.

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19 December 2016

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German Marshall Fund of the United States

Return Migration and Reintegration Policies: A primer

This primer aims to provide policy guidelines by considering the individual and structural factors which determine return and reintegration.

Date of publication:

01 December 2016

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Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal

“Sending so much more than money”: exploring social remittances and transnational mobility

Based on 324 in-depth interviews with Indian, Moroccan, Ukrainian, Bosnian and Filipino migrants based in four EU countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and the UK), this paper explores the relationship between social remittances and transnational mobility. The authors develop a new typology of social...

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28 November 2016

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Journal Article

Social remittances and the changing transnational political landscape

The term “social remittances” was coined over fifteen years ago to capture the notion that, in addition to money, migration also entails the circulation of ideas, practices, skills, identities, and social capital also circulate between sending and receiving communities. The articles in this special...

Date of publication:

03 November 2016

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Springer

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Journal Article

Concluding observations on the second periodic report of Sri Lanka

The Committee considered the second periodic report of Sri Lanka (CMW/C/LKA/2) at its 333rd and 334th meetings (see CMW/C/SR.333 and 334), held on 1 and 2 September 2016. At its 341st meeting, held on 7 September 2016, it adopted the present concluding observations.

Date of publication:

11 October 2016

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Concluding observations on the initial report of Niger

The Committee considered the initial report of the Niger (CMW/C/NER/1) at its 329th and 330th meetings (CMW/C/SR.329 and 330), held on 30 and 31 August 2016. At its 341st meeting, held on 7 September 2016, the Committee adopted the following concluding observations.

Date of publication:

11 October 2016

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Concluding observations on the initial report of Nicaragua

The Committee considered the initial periodic report of Nicaragua (CMW/C/NIC/1) at its 331st and 332nd meetings (see CMW/C/SR.331 and 332), held on 30 August and 1 September 2016. At its 341st meeting, held on 7 September 2016, it adopted the present concluding observations.

Date of publication:

11 October 2016

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