30 June 2021

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Blog posts & press:

Amid a labour shortage, here’s how businesses could hire more refugees — and gain a strategic advantage (The Conversation, June 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Businesses for Refugees Pledge Launches to Rally Private Sector Support for New Americans (Refugees International, June 2021) [text]

Displacement agriculture: neither seen nor heard (AMMODI Blog, June 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Tanzania.

"Helping refugees find work isn’t just a humanitarian effort. It’s good for business," Fortune, 17 June 2021 [text]

Venezuelan Economic Integration Would Yield Huge Benefits; Donors Should Fund It (CGD Blog, June 2021) [text]

Reports:

The Economic Impact of Syrian Refugees in Sweden (FOCUS Project, May 2021) [text]

From Displacement to Development: How Ethiopia Can Create Shared Growth by Facilitating Economic Inclusion for Refugees (Center for Global Development & Refugees International, June 2021) [text]

Labor Market Access in Forced Displacement Contexts (InterAction, June 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Livelihood Approaches Adopted by African Refugees: Integration Experiences in East and West Africa, Paper emanating from the 2020 Summer School of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, 3-14 Aug. 2020 [text]

Mapping the refugee journey towards employment and entrepreneurship: obstacles and opportunities for private sector engagement in refugee hosting areas (Research & Evidence Facility, June 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Kenya.

The Right to Work of Asylum Seekers and Refugees (ASILE Project, May 2021) [text]

Starting up and starting over: How networking can enable refugee entrepreneurs to regain livelihoods in East Africa, Policy Brief, no. 4 (TRAFIG, June 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion: a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:25 (June 2021) [open access]

"The economically rich refugees: A case study of the business operations of Istanbul-based Syrian refugee businesspeople," International Migration, Early View, 22 June 2021 [free full-text]

"Exploring the intentional behaviour of refugees in participating in micro-enterprise support programmes (MESP): is theory of planned behaviour (TPB) still relevant?," Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, EarlyCite, 18 June 2021 [Academia]

"From Livelihoods to Leisure and Back: Refugee 'Self-Reliance' as Collective Practices in Lebanon, India and Greece," Third World Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2 (2021) [ResearchGate]

"Logistification and hyper-precarity at the intersection of migration and pandemic governance: Refugees in the Turkish labour market," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 11 June 2021 [full-text via PUBMED]

"Refugee employment support: The HRM–CSR nexus and stakeholder co-dependency," Human Resource Management Journal, Early View, 14 April 2021 [preprint]
- Focuses on Australia.

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