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Repatriation not enough, activists say |
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[20 February 2010, dis, The Jakarta Post] Activists dismissed the government's claim of having achieved
"success" in taking home thousands of migrant workers who were
experiencing problems abroad.They said that protecting and demanding those workers rights
could be considered an achievement, but taking them home would not be
considered so. "Taking them home is not an achievement because its only a
part of the government's obligation," Anis Hidayah from the Migrant
Care organization told The Jakarta Post.
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EU27: Migrants sent 32bn € to their former country of residence in 2008 |
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[11 February 2010, Eurostat Newsrelease 20/2010] In the EU27, money sent by migrants to their former country of residence, usually referred to as workers' remittances, amounted to 31.8bn € in 2008, compared with 31.3bn in 2007 and 19.4bn in 2004. These figures include both intra-EU27 and extra-EU27 flows.
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Population Dynamics and Climate Change |
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[2009 by José Miguel Guzmán, George Martine, Gordon McGranahan, Daniel Schensul, Cecilia Tacoli, UNFPA, iied]
This book is in part the product of an Expert Group Meeting on Population Dynamics and Climate Change held on 24-25 June 2009. This meeting was hosted by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and IIED, the International Institute for Environment and Development, with the collaboration of UN-HABITAT and the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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Where the Women Wait, an Unwritten Code Is Revised |
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[28 January 2010 by Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, The New York Times]
For years, every morning, the sight has been the same at Marcy and Division Avenues in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: a crowd of women gatheres on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway overpass amid the din of traffic. They are day laborers looking not for
construction work, but for work cleaning houses of Hasidic residents.
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HIV Vulnerabilities of Migrant Women: from Asia to the Arab States |
[October 2008, UNDP Colombo] The unprecedented economic growth and social and economic inequalities that Asia is experiencing combine to create complex push and pull factors that have led to large movements of people in the region. At any given point in time, there are an estimated 54 million people on the move outside of their home countries within Asia and beyond, and almost half that number, are estimated to be women.
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