Supporting the Financial Health of Refugees: The Finance in Displacement (FIND) Study in Uganda and Mexico
By Karen Jacobsen and Kim Wilson One of the biggest challenges facing refugees and migrants is navigating the livelihoods and
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Lodging and Food
Cash or Credit
Payment methods for hoteliers serving migrants in Costa Rica.
Read moreThe Beast Tamer
A Honduran migrant risks it all atop the migrant train.
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Economic Integration
This video draws on a case study of Uganda, where refugees move from their early arrival phase to coping long term with economic opportunities and set-backs. The information draws on Fletcher research in Uganda.
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Financial Journeys
This video sheds light on how refugees and migrants finance their journeys and how they manage their money while en route. The information draws on Fletcher research in Latin America, the Mediterranean and the Middle East and Africa.
Read moreOrigins and Outcomes: Migrant Integration in Uganda
By Dan Creamer, under the supervision of Kim Wilson.
In the United States, the postal code of one’s birthplace predicts more about one’s future than nearly any other factor. While interviewing refugees in Kampala and Bidi Bidi Camp, I found a parallel observation in which specific details of a refugee’s origin could predict their outcomes, particularly economic and locational outcomes. Refugees from similar places of origin tend to settle in similar locales. While this finding may be obvious to refugees and development organizations, the deterministic elements of a refugee’s place of origin do not seem to influence programming in the Uganda refugee context.
Shifting Roles in Refugee Livelihoods
By Catherine Wanjala, under the supervision of Kim Wilson.
During displacement, families are jolted into new realities. From navigating new foods and new educational opportunities to negotiating a maze of new customs, displaced households struggle to master their unfamiliar surroundings. Opportunities to earn a living also greatly differed from what refugees and migrants had available to them in their countries of origin. Refugees often found these new realities also shifted roles within the family.
Syria to Turkey
Return to Maps Home Mapping Migrant Journeys
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“Worth the 500-Mile Walk”
A young Syrian professional’s journey to “the-country-North-of-Turkey” that he wants to explore. Here he sets off through the wilds for
Read moreAhmed’s Journey from Syria to Turkey via Lebanon and Egypt
A family man zig-zags across income streams, kinship ties, banks and modes of money transfer.
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