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9 Wrap-Up
Pages 77-82

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... provided additional thoughts on the subjects discussed by presenters and participants in the preceding sessions. SESSION HIGHLIGHTS Donato shared highlights from the first five technical sessions, followed by VanLandingham's summary of the last two sessions.
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From page 78...
... However, it will be necessary to consider how drivers and effects differ across people in different categories, including internally displaced persons (IDPs) , those seeking asylum, those fleeing conflict and violence, those fleeing rapid onset versus slowly shifting environmental conditions, those who are stateless, and the children of immigrants.
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... . The project involved collaboration among 10 institutions in Europe and Africa using the same survey protocols, and it adopted innovative data collection in origins and destinations, including migration and livelihood histories and robust information about motives for migration and intentions to migrate.
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... Selection complicates studies of integration, with both positive and negative selection having the potential to produce paradoxical outcomes. She commented that both factors suggest that some attributes of forced migrants offer protection, at least temporarily, and that these protective factors are part of "culture," which is a difficult concept to define and study.
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... Remedying this research gap could entail adding questions to surveys, increasing subsample sizes, talking to nonmigrants as well as migrants, broadening geographic coverage, leveraging administrative data, and analyzing data in new ways, she suggested. Research techniques could include focus groups, mapping techniques, key informant interviews, participatory action research, and modeling.
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