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Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) are in need of decent work opportunities. While Iraqis and Syrian refugees are struggling in the midst of a weakening economy, NRC’s research highlights the barriers and work rights violations faced by Syrians in KRI.

A new paper in Oxford Open Economics, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that, while digital financial services are often proposed as a vehicle to lower inequality, the cost and infrastructure barriers to accessing mobile phones may amplify economic disparities among women in developing countries.

At the end of May, UNHCR announced that over 100 million people are currently displaced around the world. That’s equivalent to a third of the total US population. The sobering reality is that many people have been pushed out of their homes, but how are they faring now?

Produced by UNHCR, the United Nations agency charged with safeguarding the rights and well-being of refugees, other forcibly displaced people and stateless persons around the globe. Traces the history of asylum from ancient period to modern times.

This collection brings together brief overviews of the social assistance landscape in eight fragile and conflict-affected settings in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic slowed down global economic activity at an unprecedented scale and migrant workers and their families are among the hardest hit.

Using socioeconomic data to promote employment solutions for refugees in Uganda

Some call it olfactory memory. It’s what Rodel Guco, standing near where water burbles on one of the shores of the seaport city of Valetta, Malta, says what his nose remembers after briefly taking off his face mask.

The rising number of forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) and the growing duration of displacement have made building economic resilience a priority, particularly for young people. By 2019, the global population of FDPs had doubled to 80 million.

Migrant workers and the remittances they send home play an important economic role in several ASEAN+3 member economies.

There are 5.5 million displaced Venezuelans around the world, with over one million living in Peru. The Government of Peru extended a relatively generous welcome, allowing Venezuelan health professionals to register....

This month’s Literature Review Update focuses on jobs and livelihoods for those forcibly displaced. Some 15 recent articles are summarized on the evidence for various innovations and experiences in different settings, both in camps, as in Dollo Ado in Ethiopia, Kakuma in Kenya, Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, and at country level, with examples from Colombia, Jordan, Turkey and Sierra Leone.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant distress to families and economies worldwide, including to migrants and their remittances. Given the job losses and high rates of unemployment due to this virus, the World Bank had initially predicted remittances to decline by 20 per cent in 2020. However, for most receiving regions, this prediction has been contradicted by either steady or increased volume of remittances.

Each year, up to 270 million immigrants around the world send money to their home countries. In 2019, remittances hit an all-time of over $550 billion. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and triggered a global recession.

In the wake of COVID-19, analysts estimated that remittance flows (money sent home from migrant workers abroad) would face a steep decline. In late April, the World Bank projected an estimated 20% drop in remittances in 2020—which would have made it the “sharpest decline of remittances in recent history.”