JDC Literature Review
The JDC literature review contains summaries of recent publications and academic scholarship on issues relating to forced displacement.
Violence, Displacement, and Support for Internally Displaced Persons: Evidence from Syria
This paper investigates the relationship between violence, altruism, and intergroup behavior during conflict. In particular, the authors examine whether past experiences of violence shape an individual’s willingness to host IDPs in Syria. Specifically, they consider...
Moving with risk: Forced displacement and vulnerability to hazards in Colombia
This paper examines the social and spatial processes through which IDPs in Colombia become exposed to environmental hazards in settlement locations. Environmental hazards encompass threats stemming from the physical environment, such as landslides, floods and fire....
Internal Displacement’s Impacts on Health in Yemen
By the end of 2020, there were more than 3.6 million people internally displaced by conflict in Yemen, in addition to 223,000 people displaced by disasters. This paper discusses the health risks faced by IDPs in Yemen, the effect of climate change on IDPs’ access to...
Knowledge and perceptions of COVID-19, prevalence of pre-existing conditions and access to essential resources in Somali IDP camps: a cross-sectional study
This paper investigates knowledge and perceptions of COVID-19, prevalence of pre-existing conditions, and access to essential resources among residents of IDP camps in Somalia. There are over 3 million IDPs in Somalia living in over 2,100 settlements. The analysis is...
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...
Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2021
The 2021 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) presents global figures for internal displacement in 2020. The report includes the following key statistics on internal displacement due to conflict and violence: An estimated 48 million people in 59 countries and...
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...
Development after Displacement: Evaluating the Utility of OpenStreetMap Data for Monitoring Sustainable Development Goal Progress in Refugee Settlements
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are most commonly monitored using data collected through national censuses and surveys. However, refugees are consistently excluded from these data collection instruments as well as global settlement and population datasets....
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...