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Selection for the weeks 23 February 2018 - 8 March 2018
Welcome back. This week you'll find stories about migrants that go back home in Colombia, about policies that try to keep Nepal's workers in their own country, and insights about migration and climate change.
“How to host 200,000 refugee students in your education system: An answer from Lebanon
An insightful Medium post by the World Bank: “As s the country which hosts the world’s largest number of refugees per capita, Lebanon holds some important lessons. Lebanon almost doubled the size of its national public education system in five years in response to the ongoing refugee crisis, something no country has ever done before.”
To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa's resources
“Only by opening Europe to African products beyond raw materials - while guaranteeing an equal share of the benefits to African populations - and addressing the structural conditions that undermine the development capacity of millions of people, will the EU be able to implement a vision based on sustainable solutions”, says Lorenzo Kamel on Al Jazeera.
Stay or go: Migration should be a choice
ILO created a beautiful InfoStory about what Nepal is doing to promote decent work opportunities at home and informed labour migration abroad. Did you know that today, half of all Nepali families rely on financial support from relatives abroad?
Scorched earth: Colombia’s ‘refugee farmers’ returning to land
Peasants displaced by years of conflict are returning to Colombia’s Montes de Maria along Colombia’s Caribbean coast, but they now face the threats of climate change and deforestation.
What we get wrong about migration and climate change
Right now, migration is one of the most important home-grown climate adaptation strategies. European leaders now have to work out how to facilitate this. It will not be climate change that creates another refugee crisis. Rather, there will be attempts to stop this migration that creates a crisis.