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Lessons from the resettlement of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Vietnamese forced migrants in Germany
Hiếu (pseudonym) embodies the ‘good refugee’ story. In 1979, he fled Vietnam by boat and eventually resettled in the Federal Republic of (West) Germany, as did many others ...
Integration International migration RefugeesBlog
Young Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the UK: Does more education mean better futures?
Education is my freedom ... if I have my education, everything is still possible for me in the future. Mohammed grinned, and looked down at his newly acquired university student card...
Migration Refugees YouthBlog
Successfully integrating refugee populations: What can we learn from the experience of Vietnamese Americans?
Policy makers should see integration and upward mobility, and not simply placement and survival, as goals of resettlement of refugees...
Migration Refugees IntegrationWorking Paper
The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UKUnprecedented numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have arrived in Europe over the last decade, and young Afghans account for the highest proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK...
Migration Refugees YouthWorking Paper
Economic integration of Afghan refugees in the US, 1980–2015Using 1990 5% Census and American Community Survey data, we examine the economic integration of Afghan refugees to the US, focusing on employment rates and income levels...
economic capital cultural capital IntegrationWorking Paper
Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp?: Evidence from host communities in RwandaThis paper studies to what extent and in what ways access to educational services and schooling outcomes of local children are influenced by the presence of a refugee camp in or around their community...
Refugees Impact of refugees Host communitiesWorking Paper
Invisible, successful, and divided: Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970sUntil the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees...
Integration International migration RefugeesWorking Paper
Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility: The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United StatesIn this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group in a host country. We approach this case in three parts...
Refugees Involuntary migration Boat peopleBlog
A WIDER perspective on migration
While many WIDER Development Conferences emerge from ongoing projects, our latest conference in October — ‘ Migration and mobility: New frontiers for research and policy ’ — offered a different opportunity: to focus attention ...
Migration RefugeesBlog
Leading economists agree: closing borders is not the answer to inequality
Building a great big wall will not close the gap. Jorge Duenes/Reuters US President Donald Trump wants to build a wall along the US-Mexican border. Britain wants to retreat into its shell to become an isolated island state ...
Inequality immigration RefugeesBlog
How should the international community respond to migration and refugees?In our previous blog , we looked at some of the key facts about international migration and identified a few areas that, from an economist’s perspective, need attention...
Emigration and immigration RefugeesBlog
An economist’s view on migration and refugeesFew issues have been so contentious in recent years as international migration. The refugee crisis sparked not least by the Syrian war has shown that policies governing migration are in a tangle...
Emigration and immigration RefugeesBook
Poverty, International Migration and AsylumThis book examines the economic consequences of immigration and asylum migration. It focuses on the economic consequences of legal and illegal immigration as well as placing the study of immigration in a global context...
Emigration and immigration Economic aspects (Emigration and immigration) MinoritiesBook Chapter
Asylum Policy in the West: Past Trends, Future PoliciesFrom the book: Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
Emigration and immigration Public welfare Refugees