26 September 2022

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Blog posts & press:

45 Major Companies Commit to Hiring Over 20,000 Refugees at Tent Business Summit (TENT, Sept. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Debunking the dangerous myth that refugees are an economic burden in Lebanon," The New Humanitarian, 26 Sept. 2022 [text]

Legal work-related immigration has fallen by a third since 2020, contributing to US labor shortages (The Conversation, Sept. 2022) [text]

Understanding successful social and economic integration – an example from Uganda (UNHCR Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Reports:

2022 Jobs and Skills Summit: Eight Opportunities to Increase the Potential of Humanitarian Migration to Australia (Refugee Council of Australia, Aug. 2022) [text]
- See also related news release.

Addressing skills shortages and supporting economic growth in Australia: Permanent pathways for temporary protection visa applicants (Curtin Univ., Aug. 2022) [text]

Building Career Pathways for Resettled Refugees in the United States, RLI Working Paper, no. 65 (Refugee Law Initiative, Sept. 2022) [text]

Estudio de mercado laboral con foco en la población refugiada y migrante venezolana y colombianos retornados en las ciudades de Riohacha, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cúcuta, Bogotá, Barranquilla y Medellín (UNHCR, IOM & ILO, 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Be a hero: Employ refugees like a pragmatist," Organizational Dynamics, In Press, 18 April 2022 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany. See also related post on The Conversation.

"Economic Adaptation of Refugees in Algeria: A Comparative Study of Syrian and Malian Emigrants,"  Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, vol. 49, no. 4 (2022) [open access]

"The Effects of Rohingya Refugees from Myanmar on Low-Skilled Wages in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh," UCL Journal of Economics, vol. 1, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Formal Micro-Credit for Refugees: New Evidence and Thoughts on an Elusive Path to Self-Reliance," Sustainability, vol. 14, no. 17 (Aug. 2022) [open access]
- Focuses on Jordan.

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 38, no. 3 (Aut. 2022) [free full-text]
- Special issue on "Forced Migration," which explores the following questions: " The issue is concerned with four important questions: (i) What are the general mechanisms by which forced migrants should be managed, and what frameworks should be used for supporting them? (ii) How can policy help refugees integrate into host economies; and what are the likely consequences of this integration? (iii) How are host communities likely to respond to the influx of refugees, and how can policy help to smooth this transition? and (iv) What role can policy play to encourage resilience among refugees and internally displaced people—and, one day, potentially support their return?" 

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