| Description |
1 online resource (iii, 34 pages) : color maps |
| Series |
Asia report / International Crisis Group ; no. 175 |
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ICG Asia report ; no. 175.
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| Contents |
Executive summary and recommendations -- Introduction -- Decades of population movements -- Challenges to state consolidation -- Regional challenges -- Working towards a regional approach -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
As international efforts focus on the worsening insurgency in Afghanistan, the issues of refugee return and the mobility of Afghans in their country and around the region have been overshadowed. Meeting the needs of returnees and addressing population movements remain an essential part of finding a solution to the conflict. These issues must be better integrated into policymaking. They play a role in many of the sources of discontent that undermine the legitimacy of the government in Kabul -- from land disputes to rising crime. Migration has a positive side as well since those living abroad sustain much of the economy, but a comprehensive approach to displacement and migration is needed, including better coordination among Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, if the benefits are to start outweighing the risks |
| Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 15, 2009) |
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"31 August 2009." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Refugees -- Afghanistan
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Afghan War, 2001-2021.
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Return migration -- Afghanistan
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Urbanization -- Social aspects -- Afghanistan
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Migration, Internal -- Afghanistan
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Migration, Internal.
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Refugees.
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Return migration.
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Social conditions
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Urbanization -- Social aspects.
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| SUBJECT |
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Afghanistan.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Crisis Group.
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