Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Opportunity:

From Displacement to Development: Challenges and Opportunities to the Economic Inclusion of Venezuelans in Colombia, 27 January 2021 [info]

Blog posts:

Five Years Later, One Million Refugees are Thriving in Germany (CGD Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

StepUp.One: Connecting refugees with opportunities that pay (Refugee Research Online, Dec. 2020) [text]

Supporting Refugees Will Help the Private Sector Recover from COVID-19 (CGD Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Conflict-Induced Displacement of Skilled Refugees: A Cross-Case Analysis of Syrian Professionals In Selected OECD Countries," Norteamérica, vol.14, no. 1 (June 2019; posted June 2020) [open access]

"The Enabling and Blocking Factors which Affect the Engagement of the Refugees in the Labour Market in the Hosting Countries," Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 2 (2020) [open access]

- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan.

Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 33, no. 1 (March 2020) [access]

- Special issue on "Rethinking Refugee Self-Reliance." Articles are freely available until 31 December 2020.

"Labour market integration of young refugees and asylum seekers: a look at perceived barriers and resources," British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, Latest Articles, 11 Dec. 2020 [free full-text]

- Focuses on Switzerland.

Reports:

Building economies in refugee-hosting regions: lessons from Dollo Ado, RSC Research in Brief, no. 18 (Refugee Studies Centre, Dec. 2020) [text]

Building Sustainable Livelihoods for Refugees and the Poor, especially Women (CARE, Aug. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

COVID-19: Emerging Practices on Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion, version 2 (UNHCR, Sept. 2020) [text]

Economic integration into host communities in times of crisis (German Institute for Development Evaluation, Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Effect of COVID-19 on the Economic Inclusion of Venezuelans in Peru (Center for Global Development & Refugees International, Dec. 2020) [text]

- See also related press release.

From Displacement to Development: How Peru can transform Venezuelan displacement into shared growth (Center for Global Development & Refugees International, Dec. 2020) [text]

- See also related blog post.

First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees, EBRD Working Paper No. 250 (European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, Nov. 2020) [text via SSRN]

The IKEA Foundation and livelihoods in Dollo Ado: lessons from the cooperatives model, RSC Research in Brief, no. 17 (Refugee Studies Centre, Dec. 2020) [text]

Multi-Sector Market Analysis Guidance and Toolkit (NRC & UNHCR, Nov. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Non-Economic migrants as workers: assessing the right to work for asylum applicants, LLM thesis (European University Institute, 2020) [text]

Refugees and host economies (G20 Insights, Nov. 2020) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (3 Dec. 2020)