17 December 2025

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Advancing responsible finance: a joint conversation between financial institutions, UNHCR, UNEP-FI and PRI (UNHCR Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Conflict, forced displacement, and growth: Evidence from Uganda (VoxEU, Dec. 2025) [text]

Refugees’ right to work and economic integration: evidence from Ethiopia (Oxford Martin School Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The US already faces a health care workforce shortage – immigration policy could make it worse (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

USCIS Restricts Work Permits… Again (The Asylumist Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Best Practices for Designing and Managing Labor Migration Corridors to Europe (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2025) [text]

Country Brief: Mozambique (Private Sector Solutions in Forced Displacement, Dec. 2025) [text]
- Previously published country briefs are available for Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.

Legal status and labour access: insights from migrant workers in Greece (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2025) [text]

Profile of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Libya (International Organization for Migration, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Asylum seekers, new businesses, and job creation," Journal of Population Economics, vol. 38, no. 4 (Dec. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"Employment Verification: The Next Front for U.S. Immigration Enforcement?," Migration Information Source, 20 Nov. 2025 [text]

"Fixed-term Employment and Subjective Well-being: A Comparison of Natives, Migrants and Refugees," Work, Employment and Society, OnlineFirst, 5 Dec. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"A multi-level process perspective on refugee workplace integration," European Management Review, Early View, 8 Aug. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Sweden.

*"Not one ‘Muslim penalty’: ethnic, religious, and gendered variations in precarious work in the UK," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 17 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Precarious employment and gender-based violence against migrant women," PLoS One 20(12): e0337690 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

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