29 January 2025

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces & reports:

Aisha: an inclusive financial product brings hope for host and refugee entrepreneurs (ILO, Jan. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Ethiopia.

First refugees arrive in Italy under new labour mobility scheme (UNHCR, Jan. 2025) [text]

"How Unauthorized Immigrants Help Finance Social Security Benefits," New York Times, 13 Jan. 2025 [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Portugal: Migrants contribute enough to fund 17% of pensions (EC, Jan. 2025) [text]

Refugees mean business. This is why investing in them pays off (World Economic Forum, Jan. 2025) [text]

Tackling the root causes of irregular migration through employability (ILO, Nov. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Egypt.

Who Loses from Immigration Restrictions? (CATO at Liberty Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Worker shortages may define the 2025 economy," Reuters, 17 Jan. 2025 [text]
- Focuses on the US and the possible impact of mass deportations.

Journal articles:

"Does ad hoc language training improve the economic integration of refugees? Evidence from Germany’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A: Statistics in Society, Advance Articles, 8 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"The Double Burden of Female Protracted Displacement: Survey Evidence on Gendered Livelihoods in El Fasher, Darfur," Journal of Development Studies, vol. 60, no. 12 (2024) [open access]

"The evolution of the content of the 'right to work' for refugees within the contemporary international human rights system," Review of Economics and Political Science, EarlyCite, 20 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"Exploring pre- and in-employment experiences of refugees in Germany: A Bourdieusian approach," European Management Review, Early View, 26 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods: Refugees in Ethiopia," Journal of Development Studies, vol. 60, no. 12 (2024) [open access]

"Gendered Employment Precarity and Refugee Resettlement in the United States," Sociological Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Measuring self-reliance and wellbeing among forcibly displaced women enrolled in a gender-focused economic empowerment program: A protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial in Colombia," PLoS ONE 20(1): e0318224 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

"Refugees as Labor: Post World War II Displaced Persons in Australia, Canada, and the USA," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 22 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"Towards Activation or Inactivation? Migrants’ Experiences of Encounters with the Swedish Public Employment Service," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 15, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

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