JDC Literature Review
The JDC literature review contains summaries of recent publications and academic scholarship on issues relating to forced displacement.
Local Integration as a Durable Solution? The Case of Rwandan Refugees in Uganda
UNHCR has invoked the cessation clause for Rwandan refugees, which after several postponements came into effect on December 31, 2017. This paper considers options for durable solution for some 17,000 Rwandan refugees in Uganda, and argues that a policy facilitating...
The Impact of Refugee Presence on Host Populations in Tanzania: A Desk Review
This literature review explores the impact of refugee presence on host populations in Tanzania, with a view to informing policy responses globally. There is a considerable body of relevant qualitative, mixed-methods and empirical literature, mostly analyzing the...
Market Size and Spatial Growth – Evidence from Germany’s Post-War Population Expulsions
This paper examines the long-term impact of forced transfers of Ethnic Germans from East German Territories to West Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Between 1945 and 1948, almost eight million ethnic Germans were forcibly resettled in West Germany,...
Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
During the first half of the 1990s, Germany received roughly 700,000 refugees fleeing ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia. By 2000, the majority of refugees had returned to their home country or territories of the former Yugoslavia. The authors exploit...
Displacement and Development: Long Term Impacts of the Partition of India
This paper examines the impact of refugee flows, following the 1947 Partition of British India, on long-term agricultural development in receiving districts in India. The authors employ a difference-in-differences approach for a subset of districts for which...
German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention
This paper presents empirical analysis of the long-term impact of highly educated Jewish scientists who had fled Nazi Germany on scientific innovation in the United States (US). In 1933 the Nazis introduced legislation requiring all non-Aryans to be removed from the...
Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia
This paper examines the long-term impact of the forced migration of French Protestants (Huguenots) from France to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1685. The author estimates the impact of the Huguenots refugees on the productivity of textile manufactories in Prussia more than a...
The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities: A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics
The paper examines 49 empirical studies that estimate the impact of forced displacement on host communities. The reviewed studies cover 17 major forced displacement crises occurring between 1922 and 2015, to host countries at different levels of economic development...
Assessing the Economic Impacts of Internal Displacement: Conceptual Framework
Estimating the economic impact of internal displacement on affected people, countries and regions would help make the case for increased country-led investments in risk reduction and durable solutions. However, a systematic, quantitative estimate of the overall impact...
Intergenerational Impact of Population Shocks on Children’s Health: Evidence from the 1993–2001 Refugee Crisis in Tanzania
Between 1993 and 2001, northwestern Tanzania hosted large numbers of refugees from Burundi, Rwanda and Congo, the majority in temporary camps near the border and a short distance to Tanzanian villages. This paper examines whether Tanzanian children born to mothers who...