08 August 2024

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Asylum seekers aren’t ‘taking your jobs’ – but it would be better for all of us if they could work (The Conversation, Aug. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Exploring the impact of work permits on refugees in Ethiopia (Oxford Martin School Blog, July 2024) [text]

Reports:

Block Farming Model for Refugees in Bidibidi Settlement (Norwegian Refugee Council, June 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Uganda.

Effects of the Immigration Surge on the Federal Budget and the Economy (Congressional Budget Office, July 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas article.

Engaging Employers in Growing Refugee Labor Pathways (Migration Policy Institute, July 2024) [text]

Global Survey on Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion, 3rd ed. (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

Pathways for Regular Migration: Perceptions of Migrant Workers and Recovery in Ukraine (IOM, July 2024) [text]

Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, July 2024) [access]
- Focuses on the US. Available in English and Spanish. 

Journal articles:

"Gendered Employment Precarity and Refugee Resettlement in the United States," The Sociological Quarterly, Latest Articles, 15 July 2024 [open access]

"Knowledge production in refugee studies from the South: Theorization of refugee labour in the literature on Turkey," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 3 (Sept. 2024) [open access]

Literature Review on the Economic Consequences of the Deportation of Unauthorized Immigrants (SSRN, July 2024) [text]
- "The findings of the most recent studies are that the deportation of unauthorized immigrants would shrink the U.S. economy, cause American workers to lose jobs, reduce the wages of U.S. citizens, lose the taxes paid by deported unauthorized immigrants and worsen the finances of federal, state and local governments."

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