title: Planned emigration:  the Palestinian case.
abstract: "This article examines the UN policies encouraging emigration from the Palestinian refugee camps through educating Palestinians and sending them for work abroad.  Data show that emigration is more related to certain types of employment, especially skilled labor and white-collar jobs, than to employment per se.  The data were collected, through personal interviews, from Dair El Balah refugee camp in Gaza Strip in 1986.  There are 291 observations representing individuals who are 19 years old or over. A major conclusion of this study is that the educational policies initiated and operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) contributed to the dispersion of about one third of the refugees in the 1960s and the 1970s."
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authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Elnajjar
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001211:Asia, Western; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004493:Education; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D007390:International Agencies; D008877:Middle East; D009790:Occupations; D009938:Organizations; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D012036:Refugees; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014480:United Nations
keywords: Arab Countries; Asia; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Education; Employment; Gaza Strip (palestine); Human Resources; International Agencies; International Migration; Macroeconomic Factors; Migrants; Migration; Migration Policy; Occupations; Organizations; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Refugees; Settlement And Resettlement--determinants; Social Policy; Un; Western Asia