12 December 2024

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

A blueprint for economic inclusion in fragile contexts: lessons from refugee support initiatives (Let's Talk Development Blog, Dec. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Niger and Rohingya in Bangladesh.

Business Leaders Convene to Advance Private Sector Investment in Displacement-Affected Areas of Africa (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]
- See more info on the "2024 Africa Roundtable on Private Sector Solutions to Internal Displacement" here.

A Glimpse into Entrepreneurship in Challenging Contexts: Some Thoughts (Refugee Research Online, Dec. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

"Lessons learned from when the Obama administration deported millions of people," NPR, 5 Dec. 2024 [text]
- "Could deporting immigrants open up their jobs for Americans? President Obama's administration deported more than 3 million people, and an economist studied those effects."

The Overlooked Impact of Immigration on the Size of the Future U.S. Workforce (MPI, Nov. 2024) [text]

Safeguarding refugee rights in business (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2024) [text]

Why Immigrants Aren’t Stealing Jobs: ‘Brain Waste’, the Economic and Employment Gaps Under-Employed High-Skilled Immigrants Could Fill (Refugee Research Online, Dec. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Without immigration, Germany’s labor market would collapse within decades: study (InfoMigrants, Nov. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

3rd Research Conference on Forced Displacement, Abidjan/Online, 19-21 Sept. 2024 [access]
- See papers/presentations available under "Session 1 – Firms and entrepreneurship in the context of forced displacement​" and "Session 6 – Labor market effects of regularization programs​." 

"Elusive privilege: class, race and gender in Ukrainian war migrants’ (un)employment in France," Dialectical Anthropology, Latest Articles, 25 Nov. 2024 [open access]

Forced Migration Review, no. 74 (Nov. 2024) [open access]
- Thematic issue on "Financing displacement response." Includes articles that focus on work and economic issues.

"How to match protections along with skills? Limitations of the match-motive matrix for temporary migrant workers," International Migration, vol. 62, no. 6 (Dec. 2024) [free full-text]

New Approaches to Labour Market Integration of Migrants and Refugees (European Parliament, Dec. 2024) [text]

"No representation without taxation: Which political parties support contributivism and how?," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 28 Nov. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Italy, UK, France, and Germany.

*The UNDP’s Proposal for a ‘Türkiye Compact’: Is it Politically Feasible? (Centre for Applied Turkish Studies Network, Dec. 2024) [text]

*UPDATED

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