Forced Migration

Forced displacement (also forced migration) is the involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. This movement may have been caused by a variety of factors including natural disasters, violence, ethnic cleansing, individual or group persecution, droughts, civil wars, deportation and population transfer. The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' more narrowly as: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations".A forcibly displaced person may also be referred to as a "forced migrant", a "displaced person" (DP), or, if displaced within the home country, an "internally displaced person" (IDP). …

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DIIS: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier · 14 November 2024 English

Article documents how efforts to adapt in place dominate, but are not enough for best development outcomes

Climate change and related impacts – like forced migration and displacement – affect the social cohesion


World Bank Group · 12 November 2024 English

The main objective of this working paper is to present preliminary findings about therelevance of NbS for building climate resilience in FCV affected settings, discuss thestatus of climate finance related …

livelihoods and income, interrupted supply chains, forced migration, disease, and food insecurity.4 Without joint


WEF: World Economic Forum · 11 November 2024 English

For these reasons, governments and businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the need to Investing in cyber resilience reduces the maintain and secure digital systems and to limit economic costs …

organization’s cyber-resilience requirements forced migration and widespread economic are shaped by its


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 11 November 2024 English

This TA will support undertaking assessments of long-term climate risks at the four atoll nations and the development of a high-level portfolio of transformational adaptation options and pathways at each …

of their gross domestic product, leading to forced migration from low-lying coastal zones. Impact Long-term


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 8 November 2024 English

Agenda This is an official side-event of the 12th World Urban Forum. Date: Friday 8 November 2024 Time: 09:00-10:30 EEST

challenges of environmental sustainability and forced migration, compounded with climate-driven migration


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024 English

This paper documents persistence in the power of elite families in Central China despite dynastic change. We study the impact of the fall of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) on couples …

Voigtlaender, and Ekaterina Zhu- ravskaya (2020), “Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024 English

How does forced displacement shape development in origin countries? We examine the case of Venezuela, where over seven million people have been forcibly displaced. Our study compares municipalities with different …

regime. After 2013, municipalities affected by forced migration experienced a large increase in events associated interaction of foreign settlement shares in 1990 and forced migration from Venezuela to Colombia. This imputed outflows document trends in a country experiencing mass forced migration and to explore the impact of these 11See Kapur allows us to capture the complex dynamics of forced migration and its wide-ranging effects. Finally, our 2018, we also estimate the effects of mass forced migration using the last presidential elections of 2024


Amnesty International · 7 November 2024 English

ending far more lives, destroying livelihoods, and fueling unprecedented levels of famine and forced migration. It’s not too late to avert total climate breakdown, but we cannot waste another minute,” said

fueling unprecedented levels of famine and forced migration. It’s not too late to avert total climate


Global Hunger Index · 6 November 2024 Italian

La partecipazione delle donne nei processi decisiona- analisi e di riflessione fondamentale per le Istituzioni, per la collet- li e negli interventi di sviluppo agricolo è fondamentale per il rag- …

https://doi. et al. 2018. 2018 Global Hunger Index: Forced Migration and Hunger. Bonn: Welthungerhilfe; org/10


UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 4 November 2024 English

The global temperature for 2023 was about 1.48°C above the pre-industrial the urgency of action, given the devastating impacts of climate 1850-1900 baseline, with the nine years between 2015 and …

given to the link between climate change, forced migration, and conflict, uprooting of millions of people


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