12 December 2022

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Blog posts & press:

"Fed Chair Finds Trump-Era Immigration Policies Still Harm Economy," Forbes Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022 [text]

IOM and Talent Beyond Boundaries Join Forces to Strengthen Labour Mobility Pathways for Refugees and other Displaced Populations (IOM, Nov. 2022) [text]

New IFC and UNHCR initiative to boost private sector engagement for refugees and their host communities (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

Refugees who set up businesses enrich NZ financially, culturally and socially – they deserve more support (The Conversation, Nov. 2022) [text]

*Tent Partnership for Refugees (US State Dept., Dec. 2022) [text]

UNHCR with First MicroFinanceBank-Afghanistan launch microfinance scheme (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

Venezuela’s Migrants Bring Economic Opportunity to Latin America (IMF Country Focus, Dec. 2022) [text]

New open access book:

Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand - A Biographical Perspective (Springer, Nov. 2022) [open access]
- This "book gives voice to the migrants and seeks to highlight their own experiences and understandings of the labour market integration process, in the first years of immigration. ...[It provides] relevant critical insights as to how labour market integration is lived on the ground and on what migrants ‘do’ with labour market policies rather than on what labour market policies ‘do’ to or for migrants."

Reports:

Guía de orientación para personas emprendedoras venezolanas y colombianas (R4V, Nov. 2022) [text]

Intentions to Stay and Employment Prospects of Refugees from Ukraine, EconPol Policy Brief, no. 46 (CESifo, 2022) [text]

Untapped potential: Trends and disparities in the economic participation of migrant and refugee women in Australia, Occasional Paper, no. 4 (Settlement Services International & Univ. of Canberra, Sept. 2022) [access]
- Follow link for report and policy brief.

Journal articles:

"Immigrant Organizations and Labor Market Integration: The Case of Sweden," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 23 Nov. 2022 [open access]

"Iranian Refugee Entrepreneurship and Inclusion in the Netherlands," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 8 Dec. 20220 [open access]

"Precarious Migrants in a Sharing Economy: Looking Good or Doing Good? A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Employee Perception of Corporate Refugee Support," International Journal of Communication, vol. 16 (2022) [open access]
- Focuses on the US and the UK.

"Private companies' engagement in the labour market integration of refugees: An exploratory study of the city of Stuttgart, Germany," International Migration, Early View, 22 Nov. 2022 [open access]

"Refugees as Migrant Workers after the Global Compacts? Can Labour Migration Serve as a Complementary Pathway for People in Need of Protection into Sweden and Germany?," Laws, vol. 11, no. 6 (Nov. 2022) [open access]

*UPDATED

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