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Jul 18, 2011 04:32 PM
Author: Colleen Ward, Anne-Marie Masgoret and Melanie Vauclair
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Research
"This research combined data from the national Attitudes toward Immigrants, Immigration and Multiculturalism survey (AIIM, 2005), and the Longitudinal Immigration Survey: New Zealand (LisNZ, Wave 1, 2005-2007) to consider both New Zealand’s receptiveness towards new migrants, and the early settlement experiences reported by new migrants. The study examined how the attitudes New Zealanders towards migrants vary across territorial authorities as a function of migrant density and unemployment rates. It also examined how migrant experiences of discrimination vary across territorial authorities as a function of attitudes towards immigrants, immigrant density, and unemployment rates."
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Jul 12, 2011 02:00 PM
Author: Arjan de Haan
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Research
Working Paper No. 513, from the Institute of Social Studies.
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Jul 04, 2011 04:11 PM
Author: IOM
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Information Material
IOM - 2011. To foster sustainable development while making migration a choice, IOM is engaged in building the resilience of countries and communities affected by a changing climate, environmental hazards and structural factors of vulnerability. This is an information sheet on Environmental migration and IOM's response.
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Jul 11, 2011 01:18 PM
Author: Mitra Pariyar, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Not Specified.
Working Paper No. 85 from University of Oxford, 2011. "A successful Gurkha campaign – not least the Parliament vote of April 2009 that allowed all ex-Gurkhas, and their families, to settle in Britain – prompted the migration of thousands of Nepalis into Britain. One of the central features of their adaptation to the new socio-cultural environment has been an active revival of caste, which is evident in the treatment of Dalits or lower castes (a tiny minority within Nepali groups). By comparing my research findings with the previous studies of diasporic caste, particularly in the Caribbean, I demonstrate a parallel, not least in terms of the history of recruitment policy: those who moved out of the Indian sub-continent to work as indented labourers – where employee’s caste was not important – struggled to revive caste, whereas free migrants were more successful in this effort. This pattern is clearly evident among Gurkha migrants. Backed up by the long-term practice of a highly caste-sensitive recruitment policy of the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the benefit of being allowed to move in en masse, the Gurkha migrants in Britain are rapidly reconstructing their caste. As most of the Gurkhas come from a selection of middle-ranking castes, in Nepalese hills, they are using the newfound opportunity to undermine the traditional authority of the high castes, whilst trying, where they can, to continue to marginalise the lower castes. The article alludes to the need to problematize internal racism – even if not defined as such – like caste discrimination, found within migrant groups. " (from Abstract)
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Jan 27, 2011 10:03 AM
Author: ILO AP-MagNet Team
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: CoP Product
Here is the updated road-map for AP-MagNet, this is a continously changing document with future and completed activities.
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May 30, 2011 12:38 PM
Author: ILO
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Policy
ILO - 2011. This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.
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Jan 27, 2011 12:11 PM
Author: ILO MIGRANT
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Policy
This is an ILO Good Practice from MIGRANT (the ILO international Migration Programme) with the objectives to extend trade union protection to migrant workers; ensure cooperation and coordination of activities between trade unions in Sri Lanka and Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan; encourage promotion of migrant workers' human and labour rights through campaigns for the ratification of relevant Conventions, awareness raising in both countries on the benefits of labour migration, and implementation of specific measures to address migrants' occupational health and safety and housing concerns.
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Oct 20, 2010 04:54 PM
Author: ASEAN
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Policy
The ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers calls on origin and destination countries to promote the full potential and dignity of migrant workers; cooperate to resolve cases of migrant workers who become undocumented due to no fault of their own; and take into account the fundamental rights of migrant workers and their families already residing in the destination country.
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Dec 06, 2010 02:46 PM
Author: ILO AP-MagNet Team
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: CoP Product
This is AP-MagNet's first Community Updates, a one-page newsletter where members can share and find news, events, resources and updates on AP-MagNet.
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Oct 24, 2011 11:21 AM
Author: IOM
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Information Material
IOM - 2011. This is a brochure on operational movements in Central Asia from IOM.
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Jul 11, 2011 01:12 PM
Author: Anderson, B., Sharma, N. and Wright, C. (eds.)
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Policy
2011. From 'Refuge' Vol. 26. No. 2. This editorial article argues for No Borders as a practical political project. The article critically examines borders as ideological, generating and reinforcing inequality. It considers some responses to injustices produced by borders: the call for “human rights”; attempts to make immigration
controls more “humanitarian”; and trade unions’ organizing and campaigning with undocumented workers. Recognizing the important contributions of some of these
responses, it is argued that nevertheless they have often been limited because they do not question sovereignty, the territorializing of people’s subjectivities, and nationalism. Further it is argued that No Borders is a necessary part of a global system of common rights and contemporary struggle for the commons.
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