World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Migration
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The village in the city, the city in the village
Many villages gradually get included in cities and urban people also migrate to villages transforming them into towns. Both phenomena require intensive study, including an examination of the defi ning
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Implement Forest Regulations Act fully”
To ensure livelihood of tribals, says member : The Tamil Nadu government should implement Forest Regulations Act fully to ensure livelihood of tribals, said P.V. Rajagopal, Member, National Land Reforms
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Will cash transfers check migration?
Direct cash transfers may curb migration among those who need to be at their native place to benefit from cash transfer The country’s poor are bracing for what is dubbed as a potential game changer in the delivery of development. To monetise its support for the poor, the government has announced direct cash transfer of subsidies to the bank accounts of beneficiaries. To start with, the government will implement the system in 51 districts and extend it to the rest of the country by the end of 2013.
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NH project: Displaced tribals left in the lurch
Despite Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s pro-tribal image, over 200 tribal families displaced in 1998 to pave way for construction of Golden Quadrilateral National Highway are left in the lurch. They are
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95.72m people to be displaced by 2040: report
Environmental and weather-related disasters caused by climate change would displace more than 95.72 million people in Bangladesh by 2040, warned a study giving an alarming scenario of climate-induced internal
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Climate change, migration, and conflict in South Asia: rising tensions and policy options across the subcontinent
South Asia will be among the regions hardest hit by climate change. Higher temperatures, more extreme weather, rising sea levels, increasing cyclonic activity in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea,
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Applying the concept of human security to research on the consequences of mining-induced displacement and resettlement
The development of international mining projects is one of the most visible consequences of globalization. Mining activities undertaken by the private sectors of Europe and North America have recently
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The concept of human security as a tool for analysing the consequences of development-induced displacement and resettlement
Extensive research on development-induced displacement within the institutional framework of the World Bank began in earnest in the mid seventies. However, as early as the end of the fifties, sociologists
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The state of environmental migration 2011
<p>The State of Environmental Migration 2011 is the second of an annual series, which aims to provide the reader with regularly-updated assessments on the changing nature and dynamics of environmental
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A nation under threat: the impacts of climate change on human rights and forced migration in Bangladesh
A Nation Under Threat: The impacts of climate change on human rights and forced migration in Bangladesh is based on the findings of an EJF field investigation in Bangladesh. It reveals the significant