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Ethical codes in humanitarian emergencies: from practice to research (2003)
Journal Article
Black, R. (2003). Ethical codes in humanitarian emergencies: from practice to research. Disasters, 27(2), 95-108. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7717.00222

Notable strides have been made in recent years to develop codes of conduct for humanitarian intervention in conflicts on the part of international NGOs and UN organisations. Yet engagement by the academic and broader research communities with humanit... Read More about Ethical codes in humanitarian emergencies: from practice to research.

Migration, return and small enterprise development in Ghana: a route out of poverty? (2003)
Preprint / Working Paper
Black, R., King, R., & Tiemoko, R. Migration, return and small enterprise development in Ghana: a route out of poverty?. Brighton

Previous studies on return migration have stressed the propensity of returning migrants to invest primarily in household consumption; where ?productive? investments have taken place, these are usually seen to involve micro-enterprises that contribute... Read More about Migration, return and small enterprise development in Ghana: a route out of poverty?.

Local Government (2003)
Book Chapter
Rao, N. (2003). Local Government. In J. Hollowell (Ed.), Britain in 1945 (194-210). Blackwell

Longitudinal studies: an insight into current studies and the social and economic outcomes for migrants (2003)
Preprint / Working Paper
Black, R., Fielding, A., King, R., Skeldon, R., & Tiemoko, R. Longitudinal studies: an insight into current studies and the social and economic outcomes for migrants. Brighton

This paper responds to the interest of the Home Office's Immigration, Research and Statistics Service (IRSS) in creating a longitudinal database to provide information on the social and economic outcomes for refugees and other migrants entering and s... Read More about Longitudinal studies: an insight into current studies and the social and economic outcomes for migrants.

Breaking the convention: researching the 'illegal' migration of refugees to Europe (2003)
Journal Article
Black, R. (2003). Breaking the convention: researching the 'illegal' migration of refugees to Europe. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 35(1), 34-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8330.00301

The study of refugees by geographers and other social scientists is, almost by definition, framed around a series of legal categories, which provide us with more or less neat categories of types of involuntary migrants. Yet the process of migration e... Read More about Breaking the convention: researching the 'illegal' migration of refugees to Europe.