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The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decades

Welcoming 60,000 Southeast Asian refugees in the 1979–80 period has become a celebrated part of Canada’s history, but the eventual integration of these refugees into Canadian society has received insufficient attention. This study provides a...

  • Canada
  • Earnings
  • Economic integration
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Settlement and labour force outcomes for Afghan immigrants and their children in Canada

Past research suggests that Afghan immigrants and their children face challenges in settlement, stemming from the impact of displacement, language barriers, poor health, limited education, limited knowledge of or access to services, and...

  • Afghan immigrants
  • Canada
  • Labour force participation
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A WIDER perspective on migration
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by Rachel M. Gisselquist December 2017

While many WIDER Development Conferences emerge from ongoing projects, our latest conference in October — ‘Migration and mobility: New frontiers for...

  • Migration
  • Refugees
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The integration of Vietnamese refugees in London and the UK

The Vietnamese refugee experience in the UK has been characteristically different from the broader international flows of Vietnamese ‘boat people’ to the West. With no pre-existing Vietnamese community in the UK, largely composed of the rural poor...

  • First- and second-generation
  • Intra-ethnic divisions
  • Invisivility UK
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Fiscal pressure of migration and horizontal fiscal inequality

This paper examines the patterns and trends in inter-state migration across Indian states and observes that migration is affected by demographic profile as well as the fiscal profile of states. Econometric estimation suggests that level of vertical...

  • Migration
  • Inequality
  • Demography
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Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility

In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group in a host country. We approach this case in three parts. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement...

  • Refugees
  • Involuntary migration
  • Boat people
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Invisible, successful, and divided

Until the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around 35,000...

  • Integration
  • International migration
  • Refugees
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Settling in motion

Illegal African migration into South Africa is not uniquely a post-apartheid phenomenon. It has its antecedents in the colonial/apartheid period. The South Africa colonial economy relied heavily on cheap African labour from both within and outside...

  • Migration
  • WNLA
  • Rhodesia
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Climate change, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households

This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Vietnam. We propose an instrumental variable approach that controls for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration using monthly minimum...

  • Climate change
  • Migration
  • Food industry and trade
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Migrant workers in the Covid-19 pandemic
by Eva-Maria Egger, Kunal Sen April 2020

Millions of migrant workers around the world provide valuable income for their families and contribute more broadly to the economies of both their...

  • COVID-19
  • Migration
  • Global health
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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China

In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China’s structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth. China’s economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978. Economic...

  • Inequality
  • Education
  • Migration
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The legacy of conflict: aggregate evidence from Sierra Leone

This paper studies the general equilibrium impact of civil war in Sierra Leone. I first use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war leads to affected areas...

  • Conflict
  • Livelihoods
  • Structural transformation
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Securitized reception: revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrants

In a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, ‘Forced migration and inequality’, one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and Vietnamese refugee resettlement across four Western countries. In the light of the Taliban return to power in August 2021, we revisit...

  • Afghanistan
  • Context of reception
  • Middle East and South Asia
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Temperature shocks, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households

This study analyses the relationship between temperature shocks and migration in rural households in Vietnam. To control for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration we use monthly minimum temperatures in the growing season as...

  • Climate change
  • Migration
  • Food industry and trade
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Getting rich and unequal?

Part of Book The Developer’s Dilemma

  • Inequality
  • Education
  • Migration
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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal

Climate change is expected to increase the risk in agricultural production due to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies investigate...

  • Climate change
  • Migration
  • Agriculture
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