31 July 2021

Thematic Focus: Solutions

Opportunity:

CFP: Frontiers in Sociology/Frontiers in Human Dynamics [info]
- Contributions sought for research topic on "The Integration Context of Refugees and Immigrants: Challenges and Opportunities in the Receiving Countries." Submit abstracts by 27 August 2021.

Blog posts & press:

A failed welcome? Civil society’s struggle to support refugees and integration policies in an Eastern German town (Political Psychology, July 2021) [text]

How a tool called Pairity is using data to gauge community support for refugees (The Conversation, July 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Canada.

The Refugee Consultation Process is in Serious Need of Reform (Niskanen Center Blog, July 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

The UNHCR in 2021: Refugee resettlement as a challenge of underfunding, power imbalance and impartiality (FluchtforschungsBlog, July 2021) [text]

Reports:

Durable Solutions to Displacement in Somalia (Danwadaag Durable Solutions Consortium, July 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Guidance Note: Regular Pathways for Admission and Stay for Migrants in Situations of Vulnerability (UN Network on Migration, July 2021) [access]

IDPs Integration: Criteria and Indicators: Results of the Consultation Meetings with IDPs, Their Host Vulnerable Communities, and Key Stakeholders in Ukraine (Danish Refugee Council, July 2021) [access via ReliefWeb]
- See also related desk research reporting on case studies for Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Serbia.

Socioeconomic Integration of Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees: The Cases of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (Migration Policy Institute, July 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and Spanish. Powerpoint files from a related webinar can be accessed here.

Journal articles:

"Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan: An interpretative phenomenological analysis," European Journal of Social Work, Latest Articles, 26 July 2021 [open access]

"Intercultural Attitudes as Predictors of Student’s Prejudices Towards Refugees," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 23 July 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Multi-level Governance in Refugee Housing and Integration Policy: A Model of Best Practice in Leverkusen," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 18 July 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 8 July 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on Syrian refugees in Canada.

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