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CMI Report | 2001
From Global Village to Urban Globe. Urbanisation and Poverty in Africa: Implications for Norwegian Aid Policy
Some 52 per cent of Africa's population are expected to live in towns and cities by 2025. There is generally an unequivocal correlation between urbanisation and economic development and growth,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2001:2) 99 p.

Journal Article | 2000
Forced migration and dilemmas of humanitarian assistance: Challenges for applied research
Researching forced migration issues, in a war or post-war context, poses numerous problems. Defining a forced migrant is not always easy, and there is often a large gap between ideal...
in Norsk geografisk tidsskrift vol. 54 no. 3 pp. 134-136

Book Chapter | 1999
Issues in contemporary refugee policies
in Ann Bernstein: Myron Weiner: Migration and refugee policies. London/New York: Pinter pp. 143-180

Book Chapter | 1998
Safeguarding the institution of asylum
in United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Population Distribution and Migration: Population distribution and migration. New York: United Nations pp. 283-304

CMI Working Paper | 1997
Underdevelopment and labour migration: the contract labour system in Namibia
This volume reproduces, with minor changes, a set of previously published papers on the history of the origins, formation and evolution of the contract labour system in Namibia from first...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 1997:10)

Book Chapter | 1997
Enviromental degradation, migration and the potensial for violent conflict
in N.P. Gleditsch (ed.): Conflict and the environment. The Hague: Kluwer Law International/ Nordic Human Rights Publ pp. 1-18

Book Chapter | 1996
Environmental change, migration and conflict: A lethal feedback dynamics?
in Chester A. Crocker et al. (eds.): Managing global chaos: international cooperation in issues of displacement. Washington D.C: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace pp. 113-127

CMI Working Paper | 1995
Land reforms and land degradation in Tanzania. Alternative economic approaches
This paper uses as a point of departure the extensive soil erosion problems in the highland area of Western Tanzania. The first part of the paper focuses on the ongoing...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 1995:3)

Book Chapter | 1995
Analysing the causes of contemporary refugee flows
in Rob van der Erf & Liesbeth Heering (eds.): Causes of international migration. Proccedings of a workshop Luxembourg, 14-16 December 1994. Luxembourg: Office of Off. Publ. of the European Communities pp. 201-217

Book Chapter | 1995
Refugees and asylum in the muslim world
in Robin Cohen (ed.): The Cambridge survey of world migration. Cambrigde: Cambrigde University Press pp. 457-460

CMI Report | 1994
Migrant fishermen in Congo: Tradition and modernity
This report presents an empirical analysis of the dynamics of the community of Béninois (Popo) migrant fishermen in Pointe-Noire. The treatment of historical data from the period prior to their...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1994:6) 66 p.

Book Chapter | 1994
Analysing the causes of contemporary refugee flows
in Rob van der Erf & Liesbeth Heering (eds.): Causes of international migration refugee flows. Brussels: Off. for official publications of the Euro. Comm pp. 201-221

Book Chapter | 1994
Towards a comprehensive refugee policy: Conflict and refugees in the post-Cold War world
in W.R. Böhning & M.-L. Schloeter-Paredes (eds.): Aid in place of migration? Selected contributions to an ILO-UNHCR meeting. Geneva: International Labour Office pp. 13-38

Book Chapter | 1994
Refugees in Asia: Problems and practices of asylum for Indochinese and Afghan refugees
in Miroslav Macura & David Coleman (eds.): International migration: Regional processes and responses. New York: United Nations pp. 149-161

Book Chapter | 1993
Medlemmene og de andre
The article is a chapter in a book on international migration. The article discusses two theoretical approaches, liberalism and communitarianism, to the question of membership, particularly how members deal with...
in Suhrke, Astri & Svein Gjerdåker(eds.): Dagens folkevandringer. Berører de oss?. Bergen/ Oslo: CMI/ Cappelen pp. 244-262

Book Chapter | 1993
The "high-politics" of population movements: Migration, state and civil society in Southeast Asia
in Myron Weiner (ed.): International migration and security. Boulder: Westview Press pp. 179-200

Edited Book | 1993
Pressure points. Environmental degradation, migration and conflict
Cambridge: American Academy of Art and Science 41 p.

CMI Working Paper | 1992
Migration, state and civil society in Southeast Asia
The paper was prepared for a conference on the impact of international migration on the security and stability of states, which was organised by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report M 1992:4) 24 p.

Book Chapter | 1991
Between shamba and factory. Industrial labour migration in Kenya
Oscillatory labour migration is shown to predominate in the labour market in Kenya. Workers move periodically between the towns and the rural areas where their families live and cultivate small...
in Peter Coughlin & Gerrishon K. Ikiara (eds.): Kenya's industrialization dilemma. Nairobi: Heinemann pp. 291-308

Book Chapter | 1990
Industrialization in Kenya: Quasi-Proletarianization and Labour Migration
This chapter adduces empirical evidence to show that the non-capitalist agricultural sector 'subsidises' industrial wages by relieving the capitalist manufacturing sector of a substantial part of the labourers' reproduction costs....
in Meine Peter van Dijk & Henrik Secher Marcussen (eds.): Industrialization in the Third World: The Need for Alternative Strategies. London: Frank Cass pp. 105-122