JDC Literature Review
The JDC literature review highlights recent publications, academic scholarship, and thought leadership on issues relating to forced displacement. Our intention is to stimulate discussion, encourage the exchange of ideas, and support a ‘Community of Practice’.
Building Inter-Ethnic Cohesion in Schools: An Intervention on Perspective-Taking
Research has shown that perspective-taking (a cognitive process of viewing a situation from the perspective of another person) is associated with lower social aggression, higher trust, and social cooperation. It is also related to being able to analyze social...
Creating Coexistence: Intergroup Contact and Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq
The ‘contact hypothesis’ proposes that intergroup contact can reduce prejudice if it is positive, cooperative, endorsed by communal authorities, and places participants on equal footing (Allport et al., 1954). This paper examines the causal impact of meaningful...
Segregation and Sentiment: Estimating Refugee Segregation and Its Effects Using Digital Trace Data
This paper analyzes Call Detail Record (CDR) data to assess how communication and segregation between Turkish natives and Syrian refugees differ over time and space. The authors: (a) use CDR data to create metrics of geographic activity space and residential...
Assessing Refugees’ Integration via Spatio-temporal Similarities of Mobility and Calling Behaviors
This paper analyzes the conditions that can contribute to the integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey by analyzing Call Details Record (CDR) datasets including calls from refugees and locals in Turkey throughout 2017. The authors propose the following set of metrics...
Attitudes toward Migrants in a Highly-Impacted Economy: Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan
Most of the evidence on factors influencing attitudes toward migrants has emerged from research in developed countries (mainly Europe and the United States), which finds: (1) little evidence that egocentric economic concerns about labor market competition drive...
Unpacking Attitudes on Immigrants and Refugees: A Focus on Household Composition and News Media Consumption
This study examines how household composition, news media consumption, and trust in media are related to attitudes towards immigrants and refugees in Belgium, Sweden, France, and the Netherlands. Literature suggests that household members socialize one another and...
Violence, Displacement, Contact, and Attitudes toward Hosting Refugees
This article explores the role of an individual’s personal exposure to violence, their own personal experience of being displaced, and their recent contact with refugees influence their attitudes about hosting refugees. The authors draw on a 2017 survey of 2,400...
Victims or Intruders? Framing the Migrant Crisis in Greece and Macedonia
This article explores how the media shapes public attitudes towards immigration. The authors analyze how online news content about the migrant crisis is framed by media in Greece and Macedonia. They define framing as the way in which reality is organized by...
The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany: Concerns about Immigration and Populism
This paper investigates the effect of the refugee crisis on German concerns about immigration, and whether these concerns are associated with the recent success of right-wing populism in Germany. The author suggests that individual concerns about immigration may arise...
The Importance of Social Capital in Protracted Displacement
The authors argue that refugees can create ‘bonding’ and ‘bridging’ social capital even in situations of relative vulnerability. In Lebanon, refugees often choose to settle in locations where they have preexisting social networks (leading to strong ethnic/kinship...