New Issue of JRS

A special issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) has been published. The theme is "Rethinking Refugee Self-Reliance."* Contents of vol. 33, no. 1, March 2020 include:

• Old Concepts Making New History: Refugee Self-reliance, Livelihoods and the ‘Refugee Entrepreneur’ [free full-text]
• Refugees as Actors? Critical Reflections on Global Refugee Policies on Self-reliance and Resilience [abstract]
• Assessing the Jordan Compact One Year On: An Opportunity or a Barrier to Better Achieving Refugees’ Right to Work [abstract]
• Self-reliance and Social Networks: Explaining Refugees’ Reluctance to Relocate from Kakuma to Kalobeyei [abstract]
• Measuring the Self-Reliance of Refugees [abstract] [ResearchGate]
• Fostering Refugee Self-reliance: A Case Study of an Agency's Approach in Nairobi [abstract] [full-text via RefugePoint]
• Towards a Refugee Livelihoods Approach: Findings from Cameroon, Jordan, Malaysia and Turkey [abstract] [related ODI report]
• Warriors of Self-reliance: The Instrumentalization of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan [abstract]
• Self-reliance as a Concept and a Spatial Practice for Urban Refugees: Reflections from Delhi, India [abstract] [Academia]
• The Kalobeyei Settlement: A Self-reliance Model for Refugees? [abstract] [related RSC report]
• Towards a Neo-cosmetic Humanitarianism: Refugee Self-reliance as a Social-cohesion Regime in Lebanon’s Halba [abstract] [Academia]
• From Refugee to Entrepreneur? Challenges to Refugee Self-reliance in Berlin, Germany [abstract]
• Refugee Entrepreneurship and Self-reliance: The UNHCR and Sustainability in Post-conflict Sierra Leone [abstract]

*Some of these issues were explored in an RSC research brief, Oct. 2017.

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