18 May 2021

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

RFP: Knowledge Support: Community-Based Refugee Sponsorship [info]
- Submit proposals by 13 June 2021.

Blog posts & press:

"Australia eyes Canada-style community sponsorship model in overhaul of refugee program," The Guardian, 10 May 2021 [text]

Big Shoulders: How the US Can Remedy Its Failures on Refugee Admissions (Just Security Blog, May 2021) [text]

How to improve the integration of Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Brazil (Development for Peace Blog, April 2021) [text]
- See also related joint UNHCR/World Bank press release.

Memorandum for the Secretary of State on the Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021 (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2021) [text]
- See also related NYT article.

Most Syrians and Eritreans happy in Germany, study finds (InfoMigrants, May 2021) [text]

The Next Presidential Determination on Refugee Resettlement: The Time to Act is Now (CMS Essays, April 2021) [text]

New home beckons for Eritrean family who spent a decade as refugees (UNHCR, May 2021) [text]
- Focuses on UNHCR's Emergency Transit Mechanism.

"Recognizing the role of religious groups in refugee sponsorship," Policy Options Magazine, 31 March 2021 [text]
- Focuses on Canada.

What Joe Biden can learn from Canada’s private refugee sponsorship program (The Conversation, May 2021) [text]

Reports:

Global Refugee Resettlement: Selected Issues and Questions (Congressional Research Service, updated May 2021) [text]

La Lettre de l'Asile et l'Intégration, no. 93 (Feb. 2021) [full-text]
- The focus of this issue is "La Reinstallation en France."

Norms and Values in Refugee Resettlement: A Literature Review of Resettlement to the EU (Malmö University, 2021) [text]

Safe Pathways for Refugees II - OECD-UNHCR Study on Third-country Solutions for Refugees: Admissions for family reunification, education, and employment purposes between 2010 and 2019 (May 2021) [access]

U.S. Refugee Admissions in FY2021 (Congressional Research Service, April 2021) [text]

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