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The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2009: “Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development"

Document number
2281
Date
2009
Title
The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2009: “Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development"
Author/publisher
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Violence, Human rights violation, Crime against humanity, War crime, Armed conflict, Post-conflict situation, Terrorism, Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour; Economy in transition, Youth employment, State socialism, Socio-Economic transition, Discrimination, Unemployment, Poverty, Community development, Social security, Social exclusion, Health care, Drugs abuse, Health, HIV/AIDS, Globalisation; Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures,
Summary
Migration not infrequently gets a bad press. Negative stereotypes portraying migrants as ‘stealing our jobs' or ‘scrounging off the taxpayer' abound in sections of the media and public opinion, especially in times of recession. For others, the word ‘migrant' may evoke images of people at their most vulnerable. This year's Human Development Report, Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development, challenges such stereotypes. It seeks to broaden and rebalance perceptions of migration to reflect a more complex and highly variable reality. This report breaks new ground in applying a human development approach to the study of migration. It discusses who migrants are, where they come from and go to, and why they move. It looks at the multiple impacts of migration for all who are affected by it-not just those who move, but also those who stay.
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