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International labour migration : A rights-based approach.
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ISBN: 9789221191209 Year: 2010 Publisher: ILO (International Labour Office)


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Les migrants mexicains, créateurs d'entreprises : processus de désalarisation des migrants internationaux
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ISBN: 9782296118003 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris : l'Harmattan,


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Latino migrants in the Jewish state : undocumented lives in Israel
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ISBN: 0253222214 0253355079 9780253222213 9780253355072 Year: 2010 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Examines Israel's decision to legalize the status of some undocumented non-Jewish Latino migrant families on the basis of their children's cultural assimilation and identification with the State, and argues that this decision signifies a recognition of the importance of practical belonging for understanding citizenship and national identity.


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Perspectives des migrations internationales : SOPEMI 2010.

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Les migrations internationales restent au cœur des préoccupations des pays de l'OCDE malgré la baisse de la demande de travail consécutive à la crise économique. L'édition de cette année analyse les tendances récentes des mouvements et des politiques migratoires dans les pays de l'OCDE. Elle évalue la contribution de l'immigration à l'évolution de la population en âge de travailler au cours de la dernière décennie, et le rôle que les flux migratoires pourraient jouer au cours des dix prochaines années dans la croissance de cette population. La publication met l'accent aussi sur les étudiants i


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Transnational social work practice
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ISBN: 9780231144483 9780231526319 0231526318 0231144482 1282784552 9781282784550 9786612784552 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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A growing number of people—immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, displaced individuals, and families—lead lives that transcend national boundaries. Often because of economic pressures, these individuals continually move through places, countries, and cultures, becoming exposed to unique risk and protective factors. Though migration itself has existed for centuries, the availability of fast and cheap transportation as well as today's sophisticated technologies and electronic communications have allowed transmigrants to develop transnational identities and relationships, as well as engage in transnational activities. Yet despite this new reality, social work has yet to establish the parameters of a transnational social work practice. In one of the first volumes to address social work practice with this emergent and often marginalized population, practitioners and scholars specializing in transnational issues develop a framework for transnational social work practice. They begin with the historical and environmental context of transnational practice and explore the psychosocial, economic, environmental, and political factors that affect at-risk and vulnerable transnational groups. They then detail practical strategies, supplemented with case examples, for working with transnational populations utilizing this population's existing strengths. They conclude with recommendations for incorporating transnational social work into the curriculum.


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Vietnam Labour Market and Informal Economy in a Time of Crisis and Recovery 2007-2009 : Main Findings of the Labour Force Surveys.
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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In 2007 the General Statistics Office (GSO) launched a joint research program with the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) to measure and analyzes the informal sector in Vietnam. Two kinds of surveys were conducted in 2007: a national Labour Force Survey (LFS) which, in a first for Vietnam classified labour by institutional sector thereby separating out the informal sector; and two specific surveys in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) which were grafted onto the LFS2007 to find out more about the characteristics of household businesses (HB) in general and especially the informal sector (HB&IS2007). This brief presents the main findings (both methodological and analytical) of these two rounds of LFS as regards the labour market and the informal economy in Vietnam. In the context of the global crisis, it looks at the dynamics of the main labour market indicators with a special focus on informal sector and informal employment between 2007 and 2009.For the first time ever in Vietnam, it is possible measure precisely the evolution of the informal economy and to check for the robustness of the estimates provided. In the conclusion the author outline some of the implications of the findings in terms of survey design and economic and social policies.


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Risky Business? : HIV Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior Among At-Risk Mobile Workers in Turkey.

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This study focuses on, what is believed to be, a key client group of sex workers: mobile workers. While several studies have been conducted in Turkey on sex workers, little evidence exists on their clients, the demand side of the commercial sex market. Research from other countries has shown that mobile workers, who are often working-age males spending significant time away from home, are more likely to have multiple sexual partners and visit sex workers (World Bank, 2009; Kulis and others, 2009; Marck, 1999). The objective of this study is to determine the HIV knowledge, awareness, and behaviors among four mobile worker groups in Turkey that may have elevated risks for HIV infection and transmission: sailors, truck drivers, construction, and tourism workers. International transportation, construction, and tourism are some of the fastest growing sectors of Turkey's economy, and mobile workers in these sectors are believed to be one of the main HIV transmission routes for future infections (Tumer and Unal, 2006). It is important to note two caveats of this study. First, no biomarker data (e.g., HIV testing) was collected from these workers, so conclusions regarding HIV prevalence or concentration of the epidemic cannot be made. Second, the sample did not include other at-risk groups or the general population, so it is difficult to know whether the behaviors are more or less risky in other population groups. Where possible, comparisons with other studies or countries are presented, but there are likely important differences in sampling and methodology. The major contribution of this study, however, is that it characterizes the risk factors within the mobile worker population in Turkey.


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Global cities at work : new migrant divisions of labour
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ISBN: 9780745327990 9780745327983 0745327990 0745327982 1849644020 1783715391 9781849644020 Year: 2010 Publisher: London ; New York : Pluto,

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This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the early years of the twenty-first century. This book breaks new ground in linking London's new migrant division of labour to the twin processes of subcontracting and increased international migration that have been central to contemporary processes of globalisation. It also raises the level of debate about migrant labour, encouraging us to look behind the headlines. The authors ask us to take a politically informed view of our urban labour markets and to prioritise the issue of poverty in underemployed communities.


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Starting from Quirpini : the travels and places of a Bolivian people.
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ISBN: 9780253354976 9780253222107 0253222109 0253354978 Year: 2010 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

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