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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 2364 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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Shifting Roles in Refugee Livelihoods

March 31, 2020June 30, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 763 Views 0 Comment Barriers, Bribery and Corruption, Congo, Coping and Thriving, Family, Gender, Identity and Documents, Livelihoods, Lodging and Food, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda

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.

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Archetypes of Escape #2: “I felt compelled to escape grinding poverty and exploitation”

October 31, 2019June 30, 2022 Ellysse V. Dick 2006 Views 0 Comment Before The Journey, Bribery and Corruption, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Dangers and trouble, Destinations, Fletcher students’ research experience, Friends and Networks, Identity and Documents, Money and Finance, Nepal, Religion, Smuggling, The Journey

Includes: escape from debt; Juju; weakening incomes; exploitative work like sex work; indentured farm labor

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

April 30, 2019June 30, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 1358 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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Tracing the Financial Journeys of Nepali Migrants

April 30, 2019June 30, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 1694 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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The Other Migration: The Financial Journeys of Asians and Africans Traveling Through the Americas

April 30, 2019February 5, 2023 Lori Zimmermann 1679 Views 0 Comment Bangladesh, Bribery and Corruption, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dangers and trouble, Destinations, DRC, Friends and Networks, Gender, Ghana, Haiti, Host and Transition Communities, Identity and Documents, India, Language, Money and Finance, Nepal, Pakistan, Religion, Smuggling, Technology, The Journey

By Kim Wilson et al.

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What Can Hotels Teach Us about Smuggling?

March 31, 2019June 30, 2022 Ellysse V. Dick 1434 Views 0 Comment Bangladesh, Bribery and Corruption, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Dangers and trouble, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Host and Transition Communities, Identity and Documents, India, Lodging and Food, Money and Finance, Nepal, Nigeria, Smuggling

By Maria Teresa Nagel, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. There is limited research describing the smuggling industry and its actors, particularly in Central America. Our study hopes to address this knowledge gap by disclosing how human smugglers lodge their clients and the role hotels play in the smuggling ecosystem.

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In Adjusting to New Labor Markets, Migrants Draw on Past Experience and Retain a Strong Sense of Pride in Being Able to Contribute

March 31, 2019June 30, 2022 Ellysse V. Dick 1061 Views 0 Comment Bangladesh, Bribery and Corruption, Cameroon, Colombia, Dangers and trouble, Friends and Networks, Ghana, Language, Livelihoods, Money and Finance, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, The Journey

By Conor Sanchez, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. Popular notions of migrants as unskilled or uneducated laborers, while sometimes true, are often false. Their jobs back home may not have always ensured adequate income, a factor that could have played a role in their decision to migrate, but they often required some technical knowledge or training. Our subjects had worked as photographers, teachers, accountants, sociologists, and business owners. Some were property owners, tending to farms and livestock or selling various kinds of merchandise out of their home. In many of the interviews, it also became apparent that these jobs had clearly formed an unshakeable part of their identity.

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The Financial Journey of Refugees: Evidence from Greece, Jordan, and Turkey

September 30, 2017June 30, 2022 Ellysse V. Dick 1415 Views 0 Comment Afghanistan, Algeria, Barriers, Before The Journey, Bribery and Corruption, Burundi, Dangers and trouble, Destinations, DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Family, Friends and Networks, Gender, Greece, Humanitarian Aid, Identity and Documents, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Language, Lodging and Food, Money and Finance, Palestine, Saving and Lending, Senegal, Smuggling, Syria, Technology, The Journey, 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.