Focus: Livelihoods, Right to Work

As part of an awareness-raising campaign regarding making work safe for displaced women, the Women's Refugee Commission and the AidSpeak blog are inviting posts that consider "Gender-based Violence and Livelihoods: How Do We Do Better?" through 15 October 2012.  Here is the first contribution.  See also this earlier blog post summarizing a webinar that discussed these issues.

Publications:

'Getting Asylum Seekers into Employment?' – Ein Allheilmittel für die Europäische Einwanderungspolitik? = 'Getting Asylum Seekers into Employment?' – A Panacea for European Immigration Policy? (MPRA, Aug. 2012) [text]
- English abstract, German text.

"I Want to Work!" (Refugees International Blog, Aug. 2012) [text]

Livelihoods, Basic Services and Social Protection in... (ODI, July & Aug. 2012) [access]
- See series of papers issued by the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium project. Countries covered include Afghanistan, DRC, Nepal, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Uganda.

Refugees to Face Further Barriers to Working and Volunteering (Poliblog, Aug. 2012) [text]

Trading Places, Shaping Spaces: Examining Somali Refugee Women's Lives and Livelihoods in Johannesburg, Paper presented at 12th EASA Biennial Conference, Nanterre, France, 13-14 July 2012 [text]

Updates from the Field: Refugee Livelihoods in Ecuador (Refugees and the Right to Work, July 2012) [text]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.