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The Economics of Forced Migration

Journal of Development Studies, 2013
Abstract This article reviews the economics literature on the impacts of forced migration. The literature is divided into two parts: impacts on forced migrants and impacts on host communities. Studies exploring the impact of forced migration due to WWII suggest that the long-term impact is often positive.
Carlos Vargas-Silva, Isabel Ruiz
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The moral polity of forced migration

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2017
ABSTRACTWe can speak of a moral polity, in which many countries in Europe receiving refugees have signed human rights conventions. Yet we also find externalization of migration control and widespread rejection towards receiving forced migrants. This observation raises two questions.
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Forced migration

2021
Forced migration has increased dramatically in the past few decades, and the causes of displacement have become increasingly complex. There is no doubt that wars and natural disasters propel forced migration. In addition, factors such as population pressures, international development projects and transnational extractive businesses, environmental ...
Snezana Stankovic, Jonas Ecke, Elizabeth Wirtz   +2 more
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Forced Migration and Professionalism

International Migration Review, 2001
The complexity of forced migration calls for significant expertise with regard to prevention, responses and solutions. This article describes efforts since the early 1980s to professionalize the field. Professional development requires, at a minimum, that three things be in place: training; standards to govern professional competence; and a process ...
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Sociology and Forced Migration

2014
Abstract This chapter examines the sociology of forced migration and how forced migration studies have contributed to sociology. It considers how sociological methods, concepts, and theories have advanced our understanding of the causes, experiences, and impacts of forced migration on micro-, meso-, and macro-levels.
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, Finn Stepputat
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Forced Migration and Education

2016
As Canadian and UK classrooms are becoming more culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, it is argued that the teacher population should be more representative of the student population (Block, 2012; Menter, Hartshorn, Hextall, Howell, & Smyth, 2006).
Snežana Ratković, Emilia Pietka-Nykaza
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Refugee and Forced Migration

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Discussion Paper• ‘Forced displacement is both a threat to, and a product of, the international system of nation-states. It therefore exposes fundamental inconsistencies in the ideology that underlies the nation-state system’ David Turton• ‘Can Improved Resettlement Reduce Poverty’ Susan Tamondong• ‘The Forgotten Solution: Local Integration for ...
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Forced Migrations As a Social Problem

Sociological Research, 1993
Our country has been confronted with an extremely grave problem in recent years: mass internal forced migration. It owes its origins not only to the exacerbation of interethnic relations in a number of regions but also to the emergence of a direct threat to the life and health of people in regions of ecological disasters, as well as to changes in the ...
A. V. Kocharian, G. S. Vitkovskaia
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