Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Improving Financial Access for Refugees: How Fintechs Can Foster Inclusion (Finextra, May 2023) [text]

Mexico’s industrial heartland offers jobs and a new start for refugees (UNHCR, May 2023) [text]

The Policy Intrusion of Migration Management: EU Development, Trade and Visa Policies (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, May 2023) [text]

The short- and long-run effects of the refugee crisis in Europe (VoxEU, May 2023) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

"Economic preconditions for full citizenship: Refugees' economic incorporation into the Norwegian welfare state," Chapter in Citizenship and Social Exclusion at the Margins of the Welfare State (Routledge, May 2023) [open access]

*Exacerbating vulnerabilities: Where do global shocks leave refugees in Jordan? (UNHCR, June 2023) [text]

*Gender brief: Livelihoods and access to work of refugees from Ukraine in neighboring host countries (CARE et al., June 2023) [text]

The labor market integration of refugees is key to their nation's reconstruction efforts, Policy Brief, no. 2 (LISER, May 2023) [text]

Refugees and Host Communities Seeking Self-Employment Opportunities in Jordan (ARCS & SRD, Jan. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Safeguarding humanitarian banking channels: how, why and by whom? (NRC, March 2023) [text]

Understanding the current and potential contribution of Rohingya refugees to the Malaysian economy (Protecting Rohingya Refugees in Asia Project, May 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Labour market integration of newcomers to Canada: The perspectives of newcomers in a smaller urban centre," International Migration, Early View, 15 May 2023 [open access]

"Labour market integration of refugees and the importance of the neighbourhood: Norwegian quasi-experimental evidence," Journal for Labour Market Research, 57:16 (May 2023) [open access]

Migration and Society, vol. 6, no. 1 (June 2023) [open access]

- Includes a special section that features "research on precarious and informal workers in the global economy." 

"Revisiting the EU’s new migration regime: The impact of mobility and policies on labour market hierarchies within and across the EU," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 23 May 2023 [free full-text]

- Introduction to forthcoming special issue.

"A Sustainable Solution or Just a Different Form of Humanitarian Assistance? Examining the Kalobeyei Integrated Socio-Economic Development Plan (KISEDP)," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 1 Feb. 2023 [open access]

Multimedia:

Employment of Migrants and Refugees in Egypt: The Private Sector Perspective (Egyptian Migration Hub Podcast Series, May 2023) [access]

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