MIGRATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND MEDITERRANEAN A Regional Study prepared for the Global Commission on International Migration
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Many thanks to Rossetos Fakiolas and Evgenia Markova for comments on an early draft of this manuscript, and to The Protection Project, Johns Hopkins University, for permission to reproduce a map of Middle East trafficking routes.
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