This paper examines the business and price effects of cash-based assistance provided to refugees in Kenya.
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Results for: Integration, Inclusion and Social Cohesion
Distributional impacts of cash transfers on the multidimensional poverty of refugees: The Emergency Social Safety Net in Turkey
This paper analyzes the impact of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) cash program on the multidimensional poverty of refugees in Turkey.
Life Out of the Shadows: The Impacts of Regularization Programs on the Lives of Forced Migrants
This paper investigates the well-being effects of a regularization program in Colombia designed to facilitate the social and economic integration of Venezuelan forced migrants.
The effects of mass migration on the academic performance of native students. Evidence from Chile
This paper examines the effects of mass migration on the academic performance of native Chilean students, focusing on the influx of Venezuelan (Spanish-speaking) and non-Spanish-speaking (mainly Haitian) migrants between 2016 and 2018. Between 2011 and 2018, the migrant population in Chile increased from 1.4 percent to 6.6 percent of the country’s population.
Education and socioeconomic status as predictors of refugee mental health: insights from a study of Jordan-based Syrian refugee sample
This article investigates the mental health of Syrian refugees in Jordan and identifies the sociodemographic factors associated with mental distress. An estimated 1.4 million Syrian refugees live in Jordan.
The Making of a “Lost Generation”: Child Labor among Syrian Refugees in Turkey
This paper examines the factors contributing to child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey. By the end of 2018, Turkey hosted 3.6 million Syrian refugees, including 1.6 million children under the age of 18, of which 1.1 million were of school age (5–17 years).
School violence, depression symptoms, and school climate: a cross-sectional study of Congolese and Burundian refugee children
This paper examines the factors contributing to school-based violence and depressive symptoms among refugee students in the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania.
The economic lives of refugees
This article systematically compares 12 distinct refugee subpopulations living in seven refugee camps and three capital cities across Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia.
Home, again: Refugee return and post-conflict violence in Burundi
This paper explores the connection between mass refugee return and the emergence of violence in post-conflict societies, by investigating the impact of mass refugee return to Burundi after the country’s 1993–2005 civil war. The author also considers how the experience of return migration affected individuals’ future behaviour, in the context of the 2015 electoral crisis in Burundi.
The journey home: Violence, anchoring, and refugee decisions to return
This paper examines the factors influencing the return intentions of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. According to UNHCR data, Lebanon hosts over a million Syrian refugee, making it the largest per capita refugee population globally.