Approximately half of UNHCR’s ‘people of concern’ (including refugees, asylum-seekers, IDPs and recent returnees) are under the age of 18 years and classified as children. This article examines some of the key features characterizing the study of children and forced...
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Results for: 2014
Afghanistan’s Displaced People: A Socio-Economic Profile, 2013-2014
This paper analyzes data from the 2013-14 Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey (ALCS) to compare the socio-economic profiles of returned refugees, IDPs, and non-displaced hosts. The survey covers the largest return of Afghans following the fall of the Taliban in 2002,...
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...