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• Humanitarian aid tends to favour high-profile emergencies at the expense of less visible long-term suffering. Forced migration is one such invisible disaster

• Forced migrants could be refugees, internally displaced persons, environmental migrants, development-induced migrants, human traffickers, and economic migrants

• According to the United Nations, over 175 million people now live outside their countries of birth. These

Publication Date: 
29/09/2003
Down to Earth [2]
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