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Financial Biographies, Volume II

February 18, 2022September 22, 2022 Anastasia Thano 1438 Views 0 Comment Ecuador, Ethiopia, Family & Networks, Financial Health, Financial Inclusion, Jordan, Kenya, mexico, Migration, Refugees, Tunisia, Uganda

By Kim Wilson et. al. This collection of profiles, Volume II, Financial Biographies of People Coping with New Surroundings, takes

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Coping in the Crisis? Lessons Learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic in marginalized refugee communities in Kenya

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 Anastasia Thano 1714 Views 0 Comment Africa, COVID-19, Financial Health, Kenya, Money and Finance, Refugees

By Dr. Holly A. Ritchie with support from Julie Zollmann This briefing note aims to offer deeper insights into the

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Migrant & Refugee Stories: Visual Journeys

August 3, 2021August 4, 2021 Allison C. Larmann 2601 Views 0 Comment Coping and Thriving, Friends and Networks, The Journey

Migrant and refugee journeys don’t begin the moment they leave home. Nor do they end once they arrive in a

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Supporting the Financial Health of Refugees: The Finance in Displacement (FIND) Study in Uganda and Mexico

January 4, 2021June 30, 2022 Maria T. Nagel 2327 Views 0 Comment Bribery and Corruption, Burundi, Congo, Dangers and trouble, Destinations, El Salvador, Family, Financial Health, Friends and Networks, Gender, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Host and Transition Communities, Identity and Documents, Language, Livelihoods, Lodging and Food, mexico, Money and Finance, Rwanda, Saving and Lending, Somalia, South Sudan, Technology, Uganda

By Karen Jacobsen and Kim Wilson One of the biggest challenges facing refugees and migrants is navigating the livelihoods and

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Retaining, Changing, and Surrendering Hegemonic Masculinities

April 30, 2019January 15, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 1237 Views 0 Comment Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Dangers and trouble, Destinations, Gender, India, Nepal, Pakistan, The Journey

By Subin Mulmi, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. Transatlantic migration from South Asia is a long, arduous, and expensive journey but each year many South Asians risk their lives to reach the supposed dreamland of the United States. A large majority of the South Asians that I met during our re-search in 2018 in Costa Rica were men, prompting a focus on how men experienced long-distance migration.

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The Ties that Bind (or Not): Social Networks Among Extra-Continental Migrants

April 30, 2019June 30, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 1336 Views 0 Comment Angola, Bribery and Corruption, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Dangers and trouble, DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Friends and Networks, Haiti, Honduras, Smuggling, Somalia, The Journey

By Heather Kunin, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. Social networks have long been recognized as playing a pivotal role within migration, with multiple studies examining, among other phenomena, the role of social networks in predicting the decision to migrate and choice of destination, as well as in impacting migrants’ chances for integration. Social network analysis (SNA) is a methodology for visualizing and interrogating relationships among actors and is highly applicable to a field where social networks are considered “one of the fundamentals of the migration process.” Until recently, this discipline has been woefully underutilized within migration studies, although this is beginning to change.

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No Sweat – If You Are a Woman

April 30, 2019January 15, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 1507 Views 0 Comment Cameroon, Colombia, Dangers and trouble, Fletcher students’ research experience, Gender, Haiti, Lodging and Food, Money and Finance, Venezuela

By Madison Chapman, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. What does it mean to have dignity and personal agency as a migrant? Men and women told their stories to me in very distinct ways, through body language and in their retelling of traumatic events. What does this tell us about understanding gender in ethnographic research and the stories we do and do not hear while interviewing?

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Financial Biographies, Volume I

April 30, 2019September 22, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 2020 Views 0 Comment Friends and Networks, Money and Finance, Technology, The Journey

By Kim Wilson et al. This collection of financial biographies traces the ways in which extra-continental refugees and migrants finance their journeys and manage money along the way. It also highlights the importance of friendships, both old and new, in making a journey possible. Additionally, communication tools like mobile phones, WhatsApp, or Google Translate leverage friendships and kinships to help piece together successful long-distance travel.

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You and I Are Not Friends: The Challenges of Ethnographic Study in the Migration Field

April 30, 2019April 9, 2021 Lori Zimmermann 1309 Views 0 Comment Barriers, Cameroon, Colombia, Dangers and trouble, Fletcher students’ research experience, Gender, Identity and Documents, India, Language, Nepal, Venezuela

By Padmini Baruah, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. Transnational migration has been one of the most talked-about phenomena of the past decade. With prolonged armed conflict, economic crises, and climate change affecting different parts of the world adversely, it is not a surprise that an estimated 258 million people live in a country that is not the country of their birth.1 Much news has been generated on this subject, and multiple studies have focused on the macro aspects of this issue. However, equally vital is not losing sight of the fact that while broad patterns and theories can explain the macrophenomenon of transnational migration, each migrant’s story is ultimately a subjective and entirely personal lived experience. The powerful contribution of the individual narrative as well as of ethnographic observations to academic studies in this field cannot be overlooked.

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Tracing the Financial Journeys of Nepali Migrants

April 30, 2019June 30, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 1680 Views 0 Comment Bribery and Corruption, Costa Rica, Dangers and trouble, Destinations, Fletcher students’ research experience, India, Lodging and Food, Money and Finance, Nepal, Pakistan, Smuggling, The Journey, USA

By Subin Mulmi, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. The 2015 earthquake in Nepal resulted in the deaths of 8,970 people with 22,302 injured. Several reports have estimated that more than one million houses were destroyed, affecting the lives of six million people. Only a handful of families have been relocated to safer places. Even before the quake, the country was reeling from the effects of the decade-long civil war that claimed the lives of 13,236 people and led to the disappearance of thousands more. In June 2009, the Nepal IDP Working Group reported that up to 70,000 people displaced by the conflict had not yet found durable housing. They remained unable to return home, integrate locally, or resettle elsewhere.

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