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Cities
Migrants on the margins is a three-year collaborative field research project led by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and is taking a comparative approach in four of the world’s most pressured cities.
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Colombo
Sri Lanka’s largest city, Colombo, reflects the ethnic and religious diversity of the island.
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Dhaka
Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh, and is amongst the world's most densely populated.
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Harare
Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe, a former settler colony that gained independence in 1980.
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Hargeisa
Hargeisa is the capital of Somaliland, a former British colony which unilaterally declared independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991.