11 December 2020

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Blog posts:

Support Swells for U.S. to Expand Opportunities for Community Sponsorship of Refugees (Niskanen Center Commentary, Dec. 2020) [text]

Why Québec’s refugee sponsorship suspension is so misguided (The Conversation, Nov. 2020) [text]

Why the State Department Must Reverse New Policy of Withholding Refugee Data from the Public (Niskanen Center Commentary, Nov. 2020) [text]

Reports:

Access to Durable Solutions among IDPs in Iraq: Livelihoods and Economic Security in Displacement (IOM & Georgetown Univ., Nov. 2020) [text]

The Next Generation of Refugee Resettlement in Europe: Ambitions for the Future and How to Realize Them (Migration Policy Institute, Nov. 2020) [text]

Searching for Durable Solutions: Integration and Reintegration in the North of Central America and Mexico, REDLAC Violence and Protection in the North of Central America, Snapshot no. 10 (Norwegian Refugee Council et al., Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb] 
- See also Spanish version.

Settlement experiences of recently arrived refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan in New South Wales in 2018 (Univ. of Technology Sydney et al., 2020) [access]
- Follow link for full report and summaries in English, Arabic and Dari. See also related news release.

Journal articles:

"Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 2 Dec. 2020 [open access]

"Committed to Integration: Local Media Representations of Refugee Integration Work in Northern Sweden," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 10, no. 3 (2020) [open access]

"Families First? The Mobilization of Family Norms in Refugee Resettlement," International Political Sociology, Advance Articles, 6 Nov. 2020 [open access]
- Focuses on Syrians selected for humanitarian admission to Germany.

"Forced migrants and secure belonging: a case study of Syrian refugees resettled in the United States," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Dec. 2020 [abstract]
- See related master's thesis.

"Humanitarian crisis and sustainable development: perspectives and preferences of internally displaced persons in the northeastern Nigeria," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 5:17 (Dec. 2020) [open access]
- "The aim [of this paper] is to get a better understanding of preferences and perceptions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled the Boko Haram conflict in the northeastern Nigeria on traditional ‘durable solutions’ to displacement with a view to ascertain how their preferences reflect the overall goals of development and sustainability."

"Integration and social determinants of health and wellbeing for people from refugee backgrounds resettled in a rural town in South Australia: a qualitative study," BMC Public Health, 20:1700 (Nov. 2020) [open access]

"Practicing Social Cohesion in the Dark: Diverse Processes and Missing Indicators in Forced Migration Contexts," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 19 Nov. 2020 [open access]

"Public Opinion on Refugee Policy in the United States, 1938-2019: Increasing Support for Refugees and the Sympathy Effect," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 7 Oct. 2020 [abstract]
- See also related news release.

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