14 October 2024

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

A data-driven look at how promoting employment fosters refugee mental health (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Germany's migration policy: Balancing labor needs and deportation (InfoMigrants, Oct. 2024) [text]

ILO launches training to boost market-driven livelihood solutions for refugees and host communities in Jordan (ILO, Oct. 2024) [text]

JD Vance is Correct: Immigration Increases Housing Prices, and That’s Okay (CATO at Liberty Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related Forbes article.

Reports: 

Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy (American Immigration Council, Oct. 2024) [text]
- See also related blog post.

The Role of Immigrant Workers in the Green Transition (Migration Policy Institute, Sept. 2024) [text]

User Journeys of Cash + Entrepreneurship Participants - The Venezuela Regional Crisis: A journey mapping case study from Colombia (VenEsperanza Consortium, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Using Poverty Lines to Measure Refugee Self-Reliance, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 10910 (World Bank, Sept. 2024) [text]

Workers’ Organizations Responding to the Needs of Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons (ILO, Sept. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Negotiating fit into host country work settings: Understanding the interplay between the past and the present in the accounts of skilled refugees," Human Relations, OnlineFirst, 30 Sept. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

"Review of Jordan’s Government Policy on the Issuance of Work Permits to Aid Employment of Refugees," Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Works, vol. 9 (2023) [full-text]

"The role of temporality in refugees’ work-related meaningfulness-making," European Journal of Work and Organizational PsychologyLatest Articles, 28 Sept. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

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