10 March 2026

Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Short pieces:

Begin with the end in mind: Reducing barriers to refugees’ access to work (UNHCR Innovation, Nov. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Indonesia.

"Correspondence: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh should be allowed to work," The Lancet Psychiatry, Online First, 3 March 2026 [free full-text

Forced Migration and Labour Market Allocation: The Case for Venezuela (NIESCR Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Brazil.

How immigration enforcement is hitting businesses (Niskanen Center, Feb. 2026)
- Focuses on the US.

Immigrants Make the Labor Market Great: Analysis of the February 2026 Jobs Day Release (Center for American Progress, Feb. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related Forbes article.

Immigrants Use Less Welfare, Even Counting Their US-Born Children (CATO At Liberty Blog, March 2026) [text]

Spotlight on Market-Based Programming: Economically Empowering Displaced Populations (RID Blog, March 2026) [text]

Transforming Uganda’s refugee response: Accelerated self-reliance (Nasikiliza Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Building Refugee-Inclusive Labor Mobility Pathways: A Visa Evaluation Framework (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2026) [text]

"Do refugees and asylees have diverging trajectories? Immigrant status categories and long-term employment," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 3 March 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

"Employer logics in the low-wage sector and their influences on refugees’ labor market entry and sustainable employment," Labour and Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work, Latest Articles, 4 March 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on Sweden.

"'My Phone Is Like My Office': Refugee Women’s Social Media Entrepreneurship in Dar‐es‐Salaam," Social Inclusion, vol. 14 (2026) [open access]

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