Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1

Webinar: 

Enhancing the Social and Economic Inclusion of Refugees through Local Development Strategies, 10 July 2020 [info]

Blog posts & commentary:

"America, You’re Making a Big Mistake on Immigration. And Canada Thanks You," Fortune, 29 June 2020 [text]

"Forced Returns: COVID-19 Puts International Labor Migrants at Risk," Cairo Review, 9 July 2020 [text]

Global Remittances to Suffer a Blow from COVID-19 (Cash Learning Partnership, June 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

How Trade Concessions Can Improve Refugee Self-reliance (Order from Chaos Blog, June 2020) [text]

If Migrant Workers are Essential, Why Aren’t Their Rights Too? (openDemocracy, July 2020) [text]

IRRI Press Statement on World Refugee Day 2020: Self-reliance as a Contemporary ‘Durable Solution’ to Forced Displacement (International Refugee Rights Initiative) [text]

New (and Awful) Restrictions on Work Permits for Asylum Seekers (The Asylumist Blog, July 2020) [text]

Refugees’ Right to Work: Progress and Remaining Challenges (RI Blog, July 2020) [text]

*Thawing the Freeze on Integration of Immigrant Workers (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2020) [text]

Multimedia:

Migration and Development: Revisiting the Migration Hump, Webinar, 24 June 2020 [info]
- A video recording is available here.

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 1 (26 June 2020)
- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects - Pt. 2 (US) (26 June 2020)