A Hope for a Home: A Brief Compendium of Financial Journeys of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Jordan
By Swati Mehta Dhawan The migrant and refugee journey in the search for safety and protection is fraught with worries
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Financial Inclusion
REFUGE?: Refugees’ Stories of Rebuilding Their Lives in Kenya
By Sophie Gitonga, Ray Mwihaki, Julie Zollmann, and Kim Wilson. Illustrated by Liyou Zewide. As of January 2021, more than
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Racism and Displacement
Stories from Migrants and Refugees In this issue of Fresh FINDings, we are excited to share our newest report titled
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Racism and Displacement: Stories from Migrants and Refugees
By Padmini Baruah Racism—the delineation of people as the “other,” as inferior on the basis of race or ethnic identity—is
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Financial Biographies, Volume 2
By Kim Wilson et. al. This collection of profiles, Volume II, Financial Biographies of People Coping with New Surroundings, takes
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Finance in Displacement: Joint Lessons Report
By Kim Wilson (Tufts University) and Hans-Martin Zademach (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) Managing finances is challenging for most people, but it is
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Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion of Refugees in Jordan – Hope or Hype?
In recent years, but especially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide have increased policy support for digital financial services with the aims of making payments more efficient and making banking safer while formalizing large informal sectors. To this end, payment fees have been waived and financial service providers have been allowed to onboard new customers remotely.
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Financial Inclusion for Refugees: Learning from Financial Sector Deepening Uganda
By Jayshree Venkatesan and Jeremiah Gatlin During a year that most of the world has spent locked indoors, we should
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Following where Community-Driven Organizations Lead
Lessons for strengthening refugee financial integration In this issue of Fresh FINDings we feature research from Kenya, led by Julie
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Putting Pieces in Place
By Ella Duncan, under the supervision of Kim Wilson. New arrivals to America must navigate ongoing identification of what American norms are and make decisions about which norms to embrace, which to merge into previously held norms, and which to discard as a poor fit. Financial norms hold a special place of importance. Deciding how to manage finances in America is directly related to the ability to provide for the well-being of oneself, one’s family, and one’s community. In a series of interviews in the fall of 2019, three Burundian immigrants in southern Maine shared their creative approaches to managing American finances.
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