These publications probe how migrants and refugees finance their extra-continental journeys and amass funds along their routes. Publications include a mix of papers, reports and essays, each with a different view on the challenges that shape people’s journey strategies.
Financial Inclusion in Refugee Economies
An essay by Kim Wilson and Roxanne Krystalli. Financial inclusion as a term and topic has become popular in humanitarian settings. A mounting global refugee crisis has brought financial access into the focus of donors and practitioners. In this paper, we ask questions that concern both donors and practitioners: Is digital, formal finance – at the heart of most financial inclusion strategies – suited to the needs of refugees, migrants, and displaced populations? Must financial inclusion approaches be tailored for maximum relevance in contexts of protracted displacement or resettlement? ...
The Financial Journey of Refugees: Evidence from Greece, Jordan, and Turkey
A full report, executive summary, and a compendium of field notes, by Kim Wilson and Roxanne Krystalli. The Financial Journeys of Refugees investigates what money and financial transactions can reveal about the journeys and experiences of forced migration. We examine money as a key node of the displacement experience: fueling transactions among formal and informal actors along the way; determining livelihood options; shaping or restructuring kinship networks; and coloring risks, vulnerabilities, or protective forces available to refugees. Our inquiry highlights these transactions and the power dynamics that unfold among refugees as well as between refugees and formal or informal authorities. ...
‘I followed the flood’: A Gender Analysis of the Moral and Financial Economies of Forced Migration
An article by Roxanne Krystalli, Allyson Hawkins, and Kim Wilson, published in "Disasters." What would a gender analysis of refugee crises reveal if one expanded the focus beyond female refugees, and acts of physical violence? This paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Denmark, Greece, Jordan, and Turkey in July and August 2016 to spotlight the gendered kinship, hierarchies, networks, and transactions that affect refugees. The coping strategies of groups often overlooked in the gender conversation are examined throughout this study, including those of male refugees and those making crossings outside of the context of a family unit. The analysis is theoretically situated at the intersection of critical humanitarianism and the politics of vulnerability, and rooted in debates about the feminisation of refugees and corresponding protection agendas. A key contribution of this work is the ethnographic tracing of how refugees embody these politics along their journeys. ...
Financial Biographies: Story Maps
FINANCIAL BIOGRAPHIES OF LONG DISTANCE JOURNEYERS: VOLUME I Princess Cameroon toward the US: Juju, political persecution and domestic violence cause ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies of Refugees in Ethiopia
By: Kim Wilson et al. This collection of profiles from Ethiopia explores stories that highlight refugee and migrant journeys and their ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies of Refugees in Tunisia
By: Kim Wilson et al. This collection of profiles from Tunisia explores stories that highlight refugee and migrant journeys and their ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies of Refugees in Mexico
By: Kim Wilson et al. This collection of profiles from Mexico explores stories that highlight refugee and migrant journeys and their ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies of Refugees in Kenya
By: Kim Wilson et al. This collection of profiles from Kenya explores stories that highlight refugee and migrant journeys and their ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies of Refugees in Jordan
By: Kim Wilson et al. This collection of profiles from Jordan explores stories that highlight refugee and migrant journeys and their ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies of Refugees in Ecuador
By: Kim Wilson et al. This collection of profiles from Ecuador explores stories that highlight refugee and migrant journeys and their ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies of Refugees in Uganda
By: Kim Wilson et al. This collection of profiles from Uganda explores stories that highlight refugee and migrant journeys and ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies of Migrants in the United States
By: Anargiros Z. Frangos, Jr. under the supervision of Kim Wilson et al. This collection of profiles from the United ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies of Migrants in Colombia
By: Marisol Hernandez, Heather Odell, Shane Sullivan, and Rosemary Ventura under the supervision of Kim Wilson This collection of profiles ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies, Vol II – Second Edition
By Kim Wilson et. al. This new edition of profiles builds upon Volume II, Financial Biographies of People Coping with New ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies: “Just Try to Knock Me Down – I’ll Get Up Again”
By Marisol Hernandez, Heather Odell, Shane Sullivan, and Rosemary Ventura under the supervision of Kim Wilson ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies, Volume II
By Kim Wilson et. al. This collection of profiles, Volume II, Financial Biographies of People Coping with New Surroundings, takes ...
DownloadReckoning with Reality: Five Key Findings from the FIND Research
By Joscha Albert, Swati Mehta Dhawan, Dr. Karen Jacobsen, Lisa Klinger, María Teresa Nagel, Radha Rajkotia, Barri Shorey, Anneleen Vos, Cate Wanjala, Kim Wilson, ...
DownloadCoping in the Crisis? Lessons Learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic in marginalized refugee communities in Kenya
By Dr. Holly A. Ritchie with support from Julie Zollmann This briefing note aims to offer deeper insights into the ...
DownloadFinancial Biographies, Volume I
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, ...
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