Keyword Archives: refugees
The Refugee ‘Family’: Child Fostering and Mobility among Sierra Leonean Refugees
By Lacey Gale. 2006. The International Journal of Sociology of Family, Vol 32, No. 2:273-287.
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: refugees
Sustaining Relationships across Borders: Translocal Livelihoods and Mobility among Refugees in Guinea
By Lacey Gale. 2006. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 25: 69-80.
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: livelihoods, refugees
Recommendations for Urban Refugee Policy
By Karen Jacobsen and Loren B. Landau. Forced Migration Review. May 2005. (Vol. 23.)
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: refugees, UNHCR
The Economic Life of Refugees
By Karen Jacobsen. Kumarian Press, 2005.
Posted in Books, Publications
Keywords: finance, livelihoods, refugees
The Alchemy Project: Final Report, 2001-2004
The Alchemy Project began in 2001 as a pilot program to explore whether income generating interventions do support the livelihoods of forcibly displaced people. Our long-term goals were to work with humanitarian agencies and donors to develop programs and policies that support the livelihoods of displaced people during and after their displacement.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: Alchemy Project, internally-displaced persons, livelihoods, refugees
Microcredit and other loan programs in protracted refugee situations
In the interests of exploring livelihood interventions that could support the financial resilience of refugees and IDPs, the Feinstein International Center is pleased to make available a paper titled “Microcredit and other loan programs in protracted refugee situations: Lessons from the Alchemy Project.”
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: finance, livelihoods, refugees
The Dual Imperative in Refugee Research: Some Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Social Science Research on Forced Migration
By Karen Jacobsen and Loren Landau. Disasters. September 2003. (Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 185-206.)
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: ethics, methodology, refugees
When is a Refugee not a Refugee? Refugee-Host Relations in Guinea
By Lacey Gale. 2003. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) New Issues in Refugee Research (Working Paper No. 88).
Posted in Other Major Publications, Publications
Keywords: refugees
Can refugees benefit the state? Refugee resources and African statebuilding
By Karen Jacobsen. Journal of Modern African Studies. December 2002. (Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 577-596.)
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: development, refugees, statebuilding
Food Insecurity in Afghanistan 1999-2002
This report seeks to explain why currently there is vulnerability to food insecurity in Afghanistan and how vulnerable individuals, households and communities are coping with food insecurity. Based on this analysis, recommendations for a principled strategy of humanitarian assistance are made to USAID.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: food security, migration, refugees, USAID