Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Blog posts:

Forum seeks solutions for Africa’s 36 million displaced (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]

- "First-of-its-kind forum brings together business leaders, refugee change makers and the public sector in Rwanda to find solutions to forced displacement in Africa."

Reports:

Consumer and market study in Southwest and West Nile refugee-hosting areas in Uganda (IFC & ASIGMA Advisory, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Deepening poverty and debt: Socioeconomic impacts for refugees in Turkey one year on from Covid-19 (IFRC & Turkish Red Crescent, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9862 (World Bank, Nov. 2021) [text]

From Displacement to Development: How Kenya Can Create Shared Growth by Facilitating Economic Inclusion for Refugees (Refugees International, Nov. 2021) [text]

- See also related RI statement and blog post.

Livelihoods and self-reliance programming in refugee and displacement settings: UNHCR and WFP Corporate Approaches (UNHCR & WFP, Sept. 2021)

- Part 1: Policy Frameworks

- Part 2: UNHCR Programming on Livelihoods and Self-reliance

- Part 3: WFP Programming on Livelihoods and Self-reliance

- Part 4: Additional WFP and UNHCR Programming and Approaches

The stress of debt: Effects on the lives of people living in Turkey under temporary and international protection (IFRC & Turkish Red Crescent, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Conquering the labour market: the socioeconomic enablement of refugee women in Austria," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:53 (Dec. 2021) [open access]

"Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector," Work, Employment and Society, OnlineFirst, 2 Dec. 2021 [free full-text]

"Financial aid, remittances and their effect on relative deprivation in Rwanda," International Migration, vol 59, no. 6 (Dec. 2021) [open access]

"Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review of Prior Research and Agenda for Future Research," Submitted to the Journal of Business Research [preprint]

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 37, nos. 1&2 (2021) [delayed open access]

- Special issue on "Travail et migrations = Labour and migrations." Articles become open access after a year.

Multimedia:

Leveraging the Benefits That Immigration Can Bring (World of Migration Podcast, Nov. 2021) [access]

Refugee Voices: Green Energy for Jobs, 13 Dec. 2021 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (17 Nov. 2021)