03 December 2025

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Building skills and decent work opportunities for migrant women in Italy (MPC Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Federal refugee employment program faces 'extremely long, ballooning wait times'," CBC News, 17 Nov. 2025 [text]
- Focuses on Canada.

"From Dependence to Dignity: Policies that are opening doors to self-reliance," JDC Newsletter (Nov.  2025) [text]

The global race for talent: Other nations are outpacing the U.S. on high-skill immigration (Niskanen Center, Nov. 2025) [text]

Small & steady: How migrant remittances from Europe keep families and countries afloat (InfoMigrants, Dec. 2025) [text]

Without Work Permits, Refugee Women in Nairobi Face Exploitation and Hardship (African Arguments, Nov. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Advancing the Jobs Agenda: Toward Self-Reliance in Refugee Situations, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 11246 (World Bank, Oct. 2025) [text]

Beyond the Camp: Realizing Ethiopia’s Commitment to Refugee Self-Reliance (Refugees International, Nov. 2025) [text]

Financial Inclusion of People Benefiting from Humanitarian Cash Transfers (Cash Hub, ICRC & PROPARCO, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

From Policy to Practice: Lessons from the Implementation of the Refugee Work Rights Policy in Ethiopia, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 11254 (World Bank, Nov. 2025) [text]

Immigration and Changes in Labor Force Demographics, FRBSF Economic Letter, no. 28 (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Nov. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Mapping America’s immigration needs: A county-level model for matching migrants to local economies (Niskanen Center, Nov. 2025) [text]

Refugee Integration Outcomes (RIO): Employment from 2015 to 2023 (UK Home Office, Nov. 2025) [access]

Reviewing the Journey of Self-reliance in the Uganda Refugee Response (U-Learn, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

Journal of Fair Trade, vol. 6, no. 2 (Nov. 2025) [open access]
- Issue focuses on migration and refugees.

"'More Than Sufferers': Digital Boundary‑Making and Belonging Through Work Among Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Finland," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 16, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Yemenis in South Korea: Risky Freedom under the Refugee Act and the Employment Permit System," Arabian Humanities, no. 20 (2025) [open access]

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