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Safe return and voluntary repatriation for Syrian refugees from Lebanon: What needs to happen next?
In 2022, Lebanon’s caretaker Minister of the Displaced announced a government plan to begin repatriating 15,000 Syrian refugees to Syria each month. Learn more about the process and the need to ensure safe repartitions for Syrian refugees.
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Teaching migrant workers’ rights using lessons from history: The ‘Ghana Must Go’ painting competition project
Migrant workers’ rights are important. This needs to be communicated to children from an early age. A painting competition to mark the ‘Ghana Must Go’ deportation order of 1983 served as a perfect opportunity to reinforce this message in Ghana.
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‘The biggest problem we are facing is the running away problem’: recruitment and the paradox of facilitating the mobility of immobile workers
This article analyses the relationship between domestic work placement agencies in Jordan and Lebanon and their clients (the employers) as they negotiate the recruitment of women from Bangladesh. It addresses the mechanisms of how exploitative, controlling practices are constructed and normalised by agencies in their everyday interactions with their clients as well as with workers.
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Assessing government responses to migration-related inequalities and injustices
What does research in Nepal and Ethiopia reveal about the effectiveness of government efforts and continuing gaps that allow exploitation and inequality to persist?
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