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Seeking asylum from nowhere— how origin shapes the context of receptionAfghanistan is the world’s newest nowhere , a predicament that will shape the evacuation and resettlement prospects for millions of people for the foreseeable future. What does it mean to call Afghanistan a ‘nowhere’?...
Refugees Forced migration Global Governance and ConflictJournal Article
Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation: Vietnamese in West and East GermanyPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Integration International migration RefugeesJournal Article
Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility: The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United StatesPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Refugees Involuntary migration Boat peopleWorking Paper
Securitized reception: revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrantsIn a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, ‘Forced migration and inequality’, one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and Vietnamese refugee resettlement across four Western countries...
Afghanistan Context of reception Middle East and South AsiaBlog
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking youth in the UK – an interview with an expert: Inequalities in access to education
I recently spoke to Catherine Gladwell, who is the Director and Founder of Refugee Education UK (formerly Refugee Support Network ) and one of the researchers who contributed to our special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on invo...
Inequalities Intersecting inequalities RefugeesJournal Article
Challenges to the economic integration of Afghan refugees in the USPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Economic capital Cultural capital IntegrationJournal Article
Is the Education of Local Children Influenced by Living near a Refugee Camp?: Evidence from Host Communities in RwandaPart of Journal Special Issue Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South
Refugees Impact of refugees Host communitiesBlog
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 Refugees