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| Abbreviations and acronyms | |
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| Why focus on migration? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Migration - an international agenda | |
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| Report of the Global Commission on International Migration | |
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| The African Union's strategic framework for a policy on migration | |
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| The African Union's common position on migration and development | |
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| The 2006 Euro-African conference on migration and development | |
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| The Joint Africa-EU Declaration on Migration and Development | |
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| The follow-up meeting to the Rabat Process | |
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| The EU-Africa strategic partnership - The Lisbon Summit | |
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| The UN High-level Dialogue on Migration and Development | |
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| The Global Forum on Migration and Development | |
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| The sub-Saharan African migration scene | |
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| Emigration dynamics: some root causes | |
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| Migration or circulation? | |
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| Internal migration | |
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| Internal migration blends into international migration | |
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| Migration patterns in sub-Saharan Africa: some historical trends | |
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| Trends in the stock of international migration in sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Recent trends in patterns of migration in and from SSA | |
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| Diversification of destinations | |
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| Commercial migration | |
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| The lure of South Africa and problems of irregular migration | |
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| The Maghreb - a region of origin, transit and destination | |
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| Increase in independent female migration | |
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| A new developmental approach to migration | |
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| Migration to rich countries | |
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| Emigration of professionals: causes and consequences | |
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| Brain drain: its determinants and magnitude | |
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| Impact of the brain drain | |
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| Measures by donor communities to counter negative effects | |
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| Brain circulation and skills circulation | |
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| The characteristics and roles of remittances in sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Use of remittances | |
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| Remittances: micro-meso-macro levels | |
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| Remittance policy measures | |
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| Transaction costs and incentives | |
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| Remittances and development | |
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| The role of the diaspora in country-of-origin development | |
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| Diaspora's economic and technological capital | |
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| Diaspora's social capital | |
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| Policy change in receiving countries | |
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| The role of governments in attracting back the diaspora | |
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| Sweden and the Sub-Saharan Africa diaspora | |
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| Capacity-building for diaspora organisations in Sweden | |
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| Human trafficking | |
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| Regional details | |
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| Root causes of trafficking | |
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| Policy measures | |
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| Data on trafficking and legal framework | |
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| Public awareness | |
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| Legislative framework governing migration in sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Regional initiatives | |
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| ECOWAS free movement of persons | |
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| SADC and COMESA | |
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| East African Community | |
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| Capacity building | |
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| Collaboration and cooperation | |
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| Principal actors in migration issues in sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| The role of development partners | |
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| Other internal and external actors | |
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| The Business Sector | |
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| Civil Society Organisations | |
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| International Financial Institutions | |
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| International agencies | |
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| Lessons learnt | |
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| Migration and development: challenges and prospects | |
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| Trade and migration | |
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| Globalisation with a human face | |
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| Reducing emigration pressure and providing employment for youths | |
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| Research and data on migration | |
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| The future outlook | |
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| A forum for migration dialogue | |
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| Circularity | |
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| Public enlightenment | |
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| Institutional capacity-building | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Global flows of migrants' remittances (US$ billion) 2000-06 | |
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| International migrants as a percentage of the population, 1960-2005 | |
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| Percentage of international migrants by major area or region, 1960-2005 | |
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| Growth rate of migrant stock (percentage) 1960-2005 | |
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| Female migrants as percentage of all international migrants, 1960-2005 | |
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| African immigrants in Sweden by sex in 2004 and 2005 | |
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| Nurses and midwives from sub-Saharan Africa on UK register, 1998-2005 | |
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| Stock of foreign-born sub-Saharan population in OECD countries, 2002 | |
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| Number of expatriates and proportion of highly skilled persons from sub-Saharan African countries living in OECD member countries, 2000-01 | |
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| Distribution of sub-Saharan African-born doctors and nurses in various OECD countries, 2000 | |
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| Foreign-born sub-Saharan Africans in Sweden, 2006 (selected countries) | |
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| Asylum seekers to Sweden from Burundi, Eritrea and Somalia, 1996-2005 | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| Trends in urbanisation - sub-Saharan African, 1950-2030 | |
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| Migration routes from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe | |
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| Sub-Sahara African foreign-born population in OECD countries, 2005 | |