Small Grant - 2007
Clandestine Emigration of Young People from Sub-Saharian Africa to Europe: Dynamic Approaches of a Complex Phenomenon - Cameroon, Mauritania and Senegal
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L'année 2006 reste marquée par un important flux migratoire irrégulier en provenance de l'Afrique Subsaharienne, notamment de la Mauritanie et du Sénégal via le Maghreb et les îles Canaries. Que ce soit à travers le désert des pays du Maghreb ou par le biais des pirogues au départ des côtes mauritaniennes ou sénégalaises, des milliers d'africains utilisent des réseaux de trafiquants humains ou passeurs mettant ainsi en danger leurs vie. La situation actuelle de cette émigration clandestine de...
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Annual Call for Projects 2006
A Swiss Network of Scientific Diasporas to Enforce the Role of Highly Skilled Migrants as Partners in Development
This research and action-oriented project, funded by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN), is centred around the current international debate on migration and development. The research team's objective is to provide a better understanding of the potential of highly skilled migrants as agents of development, by focusing on their participation in the production and circulation of knowledge. Considering knowledge as a core catalyst in the struggle against poverty, this project examines the potential of highly skilled migrants from...
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Annual Call for Projects 2005
The Development Potential of Trans-National Migrants in the Health Sector in Switzerland
The project, approved by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN) in 2005 relates to the current debate on the common themes of migration and development: how can countries of origin profit in the best possible way from the human, social and financial capital represented by their citizens established abroad?
The contribution of migrants to the development of their country of origin cannot be dissociated from their statute, standards of living and integration in the host country. Consequently, this project proposes to examine...
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