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Aug 30, 2011

LAUNCH: JMDI Handbook - Migration for Development: A bottom up approach

The EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) is excited to announce the launching of its handbook aimed at practitioners and policymakers engaged in the field of Migration and Development (M&D). This handbook represents an encompassing codification exercise to compare and draw lessons from over fifty JMDI projects carried out by small-scale actors. It allows to assess M&D practices in order to know what works, under what conditions, in which transnational spaces, and why.


Jan 31, 2012

A new research platform on return migration and reintegration: The RDP

The Return migration and Development Platform (RDP) combines a top-down with a bottom-up approach to return migration and reintegration. It is a platform for exchanges and knowledge-sharing about return migrants’ realities, in their broadest sense. It promotes comparative research projects and field surveys based on interviews with return migrants.


Jan 26, 2012

PUBLICATION "Associations migrantes, associations villageoises, une mise en réseau pour un développement local et solidaire au Maroc: Un projet, des bonnes pratiques à valoriser"

Ce nouveau rapport présente le projet "Associations migrantes, associations villageoises, une mise en réseau pour un développement local et solidaire au Maroc", mis en place dans le cadre de l'ICMD. A travers des articles et des témoignages, il vise à mettre en valeur les bonnes pratiques des partenaires impliqués dans le projet et à définir les perspectives d'avenir pour renforcer les liens entre Migration et Développement.


 
 
 

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Job
Country: Belgium
Internship - UNHCR Belgium

 

Event
Country: Belgium
Towards a Common European Asylum System: Improving Protection, Solidarity and Harmonisation

 In recent years, the EU has been receiving an average of 1.8 million immigrants annually and as such, immigration has become a key issue in ...

 

Document
Country: China
Migration in the Modern Chinese World

As the Chinese world prepares for the Chinese New Year on January 23, 2012, the Migration Information Source is launching a new Special Issue ...

 
 
 
 

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Capacities

Migrant capacities represent one of the most valuable resources available for the growth, development and poverty alleviation of countries of origin.

 

Communities

Migrant communities are the binding element of the migration and development nexus. In a broad sense, migrant communities include diasporas, men and women migrants, including also asylum seekers ...

 

Remittances

Migrant remittances are recognized to be a very significant channel through which diasporas currently contribute to local development and poverty alleviation in their countries of origin. Net ...

 

Rights

Respect for migrant rights underpins and reinforces the positive linkages that can be made between migration and development. Protection of migrant rights, both in countries of origin (prior ...

 

General

The European Commission-United Nations Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) reflects the acceptance of and growing interest in the strong links between migration and development. The ...