22 February 2022

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Blog posts & press:

"Immigrants could help the US labor shortage — if the government would let them," Vox, 16 Feb. 2022 [text]

Refugees in the US can't retain employment for long: study says (The Hill, Feb. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Career guidance for culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and/or refugees (Curtin Univ., 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Closing the Gap: From Work Rights to Decent Work for Syrian Refugees in KRI (Norwegian Refugee Council, Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Digital Financial Literacy Training in the Uganda refugee response: A Learning Brief (UNHCR & WFP, Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugees and the Egyptian labour market: an analysis of the potential role of employers' organizations (Federation of Egyptian Industries & ILO, Oct. 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"Business people in war times, the ‘fluid capital’ and the ‘shy diaspora’: The case of Syrians in Turkey," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (Sept. 2021) [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 11 March 2023.

"Excluding livestock livelihoods in refugee responses: A risk to public health," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 9 Feb. 2022 [open access]
- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan.

"Forced Displacement and Access to the Labour Market: The Case of Gaziantep," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 58 (Dec. 2021) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 57.

"A help or hindrance? Highly educated refugees’ perceptions of the role of civic integration programmes in accessing the labour market in Oslo, Malmö and Munich," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:8 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

"Immigrants resettlement in developing countries: A data-driven decision tool applied to the case of Venezuelan immigrants in Colombia," PLoS ONE 17(1): e0262781 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

"The labour market integration of migrants and refugees: career guidance and the newly arrived," International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Latest Articles, 12 Feb. 2022 [free full-text]

"Labour market marginalisation in young refugees and their majority peers in Denmark and Sweden: The role of common mental disorders and secondary school completion," PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263450 (Feb. 2022) [open access]

"Refugee Labour and the Politics of Care in Satellite Cities: The Case Study of Eskişehir, Turkey," Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 58 (Dec. 2021) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 71.

"Temporary labour migration in Asia: The transnationality-precarity nexus," International Migration, Early View, 16 Feb. 2022 [open access]

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