This paper examines the relationship between forced migration and infectious disease outbreaks. The analysis is based on a review of reports published in ProMED, a digital monitoring and reporting system for infectious diseases, to identify outbreak events involving...
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Are Refugee Children Learning? Early Grade Literacy in a Refugee Camp in Kenya
This study assesses literacy outcomes for refugee children in lower primary schools in Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana County, Kenya. The authors also examine how the literacy outcomes for refugee children in Kakuma compare with those of Kenyan nationals outside the...
Insecurity, Resource Scarcity, and Migration to Camps of Internally Displaced Persons in Northeast Nigeria
Since 2009, more than two million people have been internally displaced in Nigeria due to the Boko Haram insurgency and counter-insurgency by Nigerian security forces. This paper investigates the effect of insecurity on decisions to flee to IDP camps in Maiduguri, the...
Reflections and Directions for Research in Refugee Studies
Refugee studies emerged as an area of scholarship in the 1980s. This review piece discusses developments in the field of refugee studies and identifies areas for future research. Main points: Attempts to theorize refugee migration are relatively recent, compared to...
‘Over-researched’ and ‘Under-researched’ refugee groups: Exploring the phenomena, causes and consequences
Not all refugee groups receive equal attention from researchers. Among certain groups of refugees who have been the subject of numerous research studies, there is increasingly ‘research fatigue’, while there are other groups of refugees who feel they are...
The Labour Market Effects of a Refugee Wave. A Replication Study of Peri and Yasenov (Journal of Human Resources, 2019)
There has been much academic debate about the effects of the Mariel Boatlift—the exodus of 125,000 refugees from Cuba to Miami, Florida in April 1980—on the wages of local workers. The Mariel Boatlift increased the labor force in Miami by about 8 percent, and...
Refugee livelihoods: a comparative analysis of Nairobi and Kakuma Camp in Kenya
This paper compares the livelihoods of refugees living in a camp setting (Kakuma Camp) and an urban setting (Nairobi) in Kenya, and contrasts these with the economic activities of host communities in each location. At the time the research was undertaken, in 2016,...
The world’s most neglected displacement crises in 2020
This report identifies the world’s most neglected displacement crises in 2020, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). NRC considered 40 displacement crises resulting in more than 200,000 displaced people, and ranked them according to the following three...
Refugees who mean business: Economic activities in and around the Rohingya settlements in Bangladesh
As of May 2021, there were 867,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in refugee settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (UNHCR, 2021). Only about 50,000 Rohingya refugees from earlier (pre-August 2017) caseloads have been granted refugee status, allowing them to...
Gender-Based Violence and Violence Against Children: Prevention and Response Services in Uganda’s Refugee-Hosting Districts
Uganda hosts 1.4 million refugees, 81 percent of whom are women and children who are at high risk of gender-based violence (GBV) and violence against children (VAC), including sexual exploitation and abuse, rape, forced and child marriage, and intimate partner...