JDC Literature Review

The JDC literature review contains summaries of recent publications and academic scholarship on issues relating to forced displacement.

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Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2020

The 2020 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) presents global figures for internal displacement in 2019. The report includes the following key statistics on internal displacement due to conflict and violence:  An estimated 45.7 million people were internally...

The impacts of refugee repatriation on receiving communities

Between 2000 and 2016 around 600,000 Burundian refugees returned from Tanzania, the majority before 2010, with most settling in their communities of origin. This paper examines the consequences of refugee repatriation for communities of return in Burundi, in a context...

Dynamic Refugee Matching

Asylum seekers are often assigned to a locality in their host country based on uninformed random mechanisms, which do not consider the characteristics of the asylum seekers in the matching process. Consequently, this approach may lead to an inefficient and unfair...

The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Danish Refugees

The authors exploit the random settlement policy for refugees in Denmark between 1986-1998 to examine the effect of locations on refugees’ wages. During this period, the Danish government assigned 80,000 refugees across 271 municipalities, in proportion to local...