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Second-generation Afghans in Iran

A. Johnstone / Panos Pictures

Iran is one of the most concentrated areas of Afghan migrants and refugees. This document explores second-generation experiences of education, employment and social networks. It also examines the self definition of respondents in relation to their counterparts in Afghanistan, their Iranian peers and their parents, and also their attachment to Afghanistan or Iran as homeland.

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How should aid funding respond to African urbanisation?: ( M. Herrmann;H. Khan / Munich Personal RePEc Archive , 2008); Rapid urbanisation is a fact of life even in the least developed countries where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to co...
Realistic planning for future urban growth calls for explicit consideration of the needs of the poor: ( United Nations Population Fund , 2008); In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half the world's population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. Many of the ne...
Mapping environmental change in Africa: evidence from satellite images: ( United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2008); This African atlas is the first publication to use satellite photos to depict environmental change in each and every African country during the last thirty years. Through an array of satellite imag...
How to improve services and protection for displaced people with disabilities: ( Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children , 2008); Persons with disabilities remain among the most hidden, neglected and socially excluded of all displaced people today. People with disabilities are often literally and programmatically “invis...
Linking poverty and disaster vulnerability in the Caribbean: ( M. Attzs / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2008); The dislocation of households coupled with the loss of livelihoods caused by natural disaster, which usually affects the poor disproportionately, provides a push factor for migration and future rem...
Conducting participatory assessments with refugees: ( United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees , 2006); Refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees must be at the centre of decision-making concerning their protection and well-being. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the protection p...
A changing UNHCR terminology: ( J. Crisp / United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees , 2008); Until the 1990s, UNHCR rarely made any reference to the issue of international migration in its policy documents and public statements. From the early 1990’s onwards, however, UNHCR's traditiona...
Perceived images of West African migration: ( H. de Haas / International Organization for Migration , 2008); The migrants themselves are commonly depicted as victims recruited by merciless and unscrupulous traffickers and smugglers. This paper highlights how due to this perceived image policy solutions us...
Rapid response study on citizenship, violence and xenophobia in South Africa: ( Democracy and Governance Programme Human Sciences Research Council / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa , 2008); More than 50 people died and tens of thousands of people were displaced as a result of ‘xenophobic’ violence in South Africa during 2008. A number of urgent questions resulted from these a...
Land grievances key to understanding forced displacement in Kenya: ( Overseas Development Institute, London , 2008); This policy brief explores the importance of land issues in forced displacement in Kenya, drawing out their implications for current humanitarian and early recovery interventions in the wake of the...