10 February 2022

Thematic Focus: Solutions - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Job announcement: Consultancy, Norwegian Refugee Council [info]
- Candidate sought to undertake evaluation on "Durable Solutions in Nigeria: Building Tools for Better Advocacy and Programming." Submit proposal by 21 February 2022.

Blog posts & press:

COVID-19 compounds housing instability for Canada’s Syrian refugees: study (Western University, Feb. 2022) [text]

"Greece: Refugees, asylum-seekers struggle to integrate," DW, 8 Feb. 2022 [text]

"'Not without my partner': refugees forced to choose between family in Australia and chance of US visa," The Guardian, 4 Feb. 2022 [text]

Reports:

Access to Durable Solutions Among IDPs in Iraq: Six Years in Displacement (IOM & Georgetown Univ., Jan. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Effective inclusion of refugees: Participatory approaches for practitioners at the local level (UNHCR & Migration Policy Group, Jan. 2022) [text]
- "UNHCR and the Migration Policy Group have created a step-by-step practical Toolkit for local stakeholders to guide the development, adaptation and evaluation of integration and inclusion practices for refugees. The toolkit was developed together with integration practitioners from 7 pilot countries in Europe who informed the design, tested and validated it." See also related flyer.

Global Literature Synthesis Report: Refugee Sponsorship and Integration Outcomes (Univ. of Ottawa, 2021; posted Feb. 2022) [text]

Life out of the Shadows: Impacts of Amnesties in the Lives of Refugees, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9928 (World Bank, Feb. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Venezuelans in Colombia. See also related event video recording.

Multi-level governance for migrant integration: Policy instruments from Austria, Canada, France, Germany and Italy (OECD, Feb. 2022) [text]

Norms and Values in Refugee Resettlement: A Literature Review of Resettlement to the EU, Current Themes in IMER Research, no. 1 (Malmö University, 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"The Fragile Obligation: Gratitude, Discontent, and Dissent with Syrian Refugees in Canada," Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"How effective are integration policy reforms? The case of asylum-related migrants," International Migration, Early View, 27 Jan. 2022 [open access]
- Focuses on Switzerland.

*"Neoliberal Fatigue: The Effects of Private Refugee Sponsorship on Canadians’ Political Consciousness," Critical Sociology, OnlineFirst, 16 Dec. 2021 [open access]

"Refugees' and non-refugee migrants' regret about migration and confidence in integration: The role of forcedness and perils before and during migration," International Journal of Psychology, Early View, 3 Feb. 2022 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Socio-cultural starting positions among recently arrived Syrian refugees in the Netherlands: A latent class analysis," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 87 (March 2022) [open access]

Multimedia from the University of Ottawa Refugee Hub:

Follow the links below for access to video recordings of various workshops held on the topic of refugee sponsorship.

#Refugeesponsorshipcolloquium Playlist [access]

Refugee Sponsorship Research Colloquium Playlist [access]

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