Refugees and cities

Refugees and cities

Participatory research that supports towns and urban neighbourhoods in becoming immigrant- and refugee-friendly spaces that take full advantage of the benefits brought by refugees while finding ways to manage the inevitable challenges of immigrant integration.


Publications

Towards More Inclusive Urban Health Systems for Refugee Wellbeing: Lessons from Kampala, Uganda
Anna Walnycki, Lucy Earle and William Monteith
Working Paper. London: International Institute for Environment and Development, December 2019

Displacement and Disconnection? Exploring the Role of Social Networks in the Livelihoods of Refugees in Gaziantep, Nairobi, and Peshawar
Kabiri Bule, Ammar A. Malik, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, Benjamin Edwards, and Edward Mohr
Urban Institute, June 22, 2017

No Way Back? Adaptation and Urbanization of IDP Livelihoods in the Darfur Region of Sudan
Helen Young and Karen Jacobsen
Development and Change 44 (January 1, 2013): 125–45

Building Livelihood Opportunities for Refugee Populations: Lessons from Past Practice
Karen Jacobsen and Susan Fratzke
Migration Policy Institute, September 7, 2016

Migration Plans and Decision-Making among Refugees, IDPs and Host Communities in Peri-Urban Erbil, Iraq: The Effect of a UNIDO Intervention
Karen Jacobsen, Charles Simpson, and Noriko Takahashi
Working Paper 1/2019. United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 2019

Sudanese Refugees in Cairo: Remittances and Livelihoods
Karen Jacobsen, Ayoub Maysa, and Alice Johnson
Journal of Refugee Studies 27, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 145–59

Livelihoods and Forced Migration
Karen Jacobsen
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014

Stealth Humanitarianism: Negotiating Politics, Precarity and Performance Management in Protecting the Urban Displaced
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato Loren B. Landau
ournal of Refugee Studies 30, no. 3 (2017): 407–425

Displacement and the Pursuit of Urban Protection: Forced Migration, Fluidity and Global Cities
Loren B. Landau
In Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates, edited by Alice Bloch and Giorgia Donà. London: Routledge, 2017

Urban Refugees and IDPs
Loren B. Landau
n The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014

Protection through Mobility: Opening Labor and Study Migration Channels to Refugees
Katy Long and Sarah Rosengaertner
Migration Policy Institute, October 3, 2016