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Bilateral labour agreements (BLAs) are part of the broader set of frameworks, laws, technical instruments and practices that make up national labour migration policies. Improving the quality and efficiency of BLAs in ensuring rights-based labour migration requires State and non-State actors (social… Read More

O Guia Regional para a Facilitação da Mobilidade Laboral Sul-Sul na África Austral oferece recomendações para auxiliar os Estados-Membros da Comunidade para o Desenvolvimento da África Austral (SADC) a desenvolverem soluções de políticas nacionais e abordagens visando a uma melhor governação da… Read More

Although Cape Verde has a great emigration tradition, immigration to Cape Verde has increased in recent decades. The latest data indicate that the immigrant population has risen by around 20 per cent from 8,931 in 1991 to reach 12,305 in 2010. The majority of immigrants in Cape Verde come from the… Read More

Entre 1975 e 2002, Angola sofreu um conflicto armado que provocou o deslocamento de milhões de Angolanos no país e para o estrangeiro. Após o final da guerra em 2002, muitos foram aqueles que voltaram para Angola desde países vizinhos. Apesar da importância deste fenómeno, o regresso dos… Read More

Trafficking in persons constitutes a grave crime against the individual. The absence of comprehensive data presents a major issue, including in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Many cases go unreported as victims are too afraid to testify, cannot escape exploitation, are expelled… Read More

International migration from the South towards other regions is often simplified as South-North (or low-income to high-income) movements (De Haas, 2007; Minvielle, 2010). Reality is indeed much more complex and new and atypical extraregional migration corridors between Southern regions rapidly… Read More

Among the different stages of the migration process, return is the one which is least well understood. The motives guiding return cannot be easily categorized and are highly context dependent (Bastia, 2011). Scholars and policymakers have focused on understanding and analysing decisions for… Read More

Effective protection and respect of the human rights of migrants, as established by international, regional and national norms, is necessary to ensure that individuals lead dignified, secure and productive lives. It is also necessary to guarantee the well-being of migrants and respect of the rule… Read More

Over the past years, migration research and policymaking have focused much attention on South-North flows and on certain aspects of the migration and development nexus, such as remittances and ‘brain drain’. Cultural remittances have received little attention in policymaking. Nevertheless, culture… Read More

Children, both girls and boys, are known to have been migrating for various reasons throughout history. These kinds of movements are widespread and deeply rooted in the history and sociology of daily life in West Africa and its people.

Child migration is a complex phenomenon, which remains widely discussed among researchers and policymakers. The diversity of scenarios in which children are affected by migration hampers decision-making and affects the protection of children rights.

As migrações, internas e internacionais, são um fenómeno de grande relevância em África. São fluxos multiformes, de grande amplitude e na sua grande maioria internos ao continente (FIDH, 2007). As migrações africanas são quantitativamente muito importantes, tanto em termos de rácio relativamente à… Read More

Africans mostly migrate within the continent and constitute only 9 per cent of the population that migrates internationally (UNDESA, 2009). Migration in Africa, in addition to intra-regional, is unstable, largely fuelled by conflict and environmental changes, displaying high volumes of seasonal… Read More

Remittances may be the most tangible part of the migration – development nexus. They however do not just concern financial transfers, but also social remittances - a range of contributions by migrants and diaspora members. This background note aims to shed light on the definition, challenges of… Read More

This Think Piece addresses the issue of the development impacts of migration in the Angolan context, and seeks to identify the specific opportunities and challenges posed by this phenomenon. It has been written within the context of the wide-ranging consultation process that agencies and… Read More