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Economic Integration

July 22, 2020April 9, 2021 Lori Zimmermann 873 Views 0 Comment Barriers, Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Financial Health, Friends and Networks, Gender, Humanitarian Aid, Identity and Documents, Integration, Language, Livelihoods, Lodging and Food, Money and Finance, Religion, Rwanda, Saving and Lending, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda

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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Origins and Outcomes: Migrant Integration in Uganda

March 31, 2020November 14, 2021 Lori Zimmermann 749 Views 0 Comment Burundi, Congo, Friends and Networks, Integration, Language, Livelihoods, Lodging and Food, Religion, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, 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.

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Shifting Roles in Refugee Livelihoods

March 31, 2020June 30, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 753 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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Syria to Turkey

January 7, 2020April 9, 2021 Ellysse V. Dick 1492 Views 0 Comment Before The Journey, Coping and Thriving, Family, Friends and Networks, Livelihoods, Lodging and Food, Money and Finance, Syria, The Journey, Turkey

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Archetypes of Escape #3: “I want my family to thrive”

October 31, 2019April 9, 2021 Ellysse V. Dick 1960 Views 0 Comment Coping and Thriving, Costa Rica, Ghana, Integration, Jordan, Livelihoods, Syria

Includes: leaning toward improved business opportunities; career advancement; educational opportunities

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Ahmed’s Journey from Syria to Turkey via Lebanon and Egypt

October 31, 2019April 8, 2021 Ellysse V. Dick 2349 Views 0 Comment Before The Journey, Coping and Thriving, Family, Friends and Networks, Livelihoods, Lodging and Food, Money and Finance, Syria, The Journey, Turkey

A family man zig-zags across income streams, kinship ties, banks and modes of money transfer.

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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 1053 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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“I’m the Everything”: The Overlooked Heroism of Refugee Youth in the United States

February 28, 2019January 15, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 1033 Views 0 Comment Afghanistan, Coping and Thriving, DRC, Family, Integration, Iraq, Language, Livelihoods, Money and Finance, Syria, USA

By Julie Zollmann. Nine voluntary agencies have the official responsibility for resettling refugees into communities throughout the United States. They find their clients new housing, schools, and jobs. They help them get social security numbers and open bank accounts. They play an indispensable role in helping refugees settle into their new homes. But the work of integration, of truly building a life in a new country with a new language, new transportation system, new labor market, and a whole new set of social norms is a much bigger job, one that in many families is being done stoically, even heroically, by young refugees in their teens and early twenties.

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Financial Integration of Refugees in Dallas, Texas

February 28, 2019January 15, 2022 Lori Zimmermann 1068 Views 0 Comment Afghanistan, Barriers, DRC, Financial Health, Friends and Networks, Humanitarian Aid, Integration, Iraq, Language, Livelihoods, Money and Finance, Syria, Technology, USA

By Julie Zollmann, Airokhsh Faiz-Qaisary, Kenza Ben-Azouz, Kim Wilson, and Radha Rajkotia. Refugees resettled in the United States are typically supported quite closely early in their transition as support agencies help them settle into new homes, open bank accounts, get their first jobs, and register their children in school. Agencies monitor whether refugees are “self-sufficient,” meaning that their incomes cover their most essential expenses as quickly as possible. However, little is known about the next stage of refugees’ financial and economic transitions, once refugees are no longer interacting regularly with resettlement agencies. In July 2018, we interviewed 29 refugees who had been resettled two to three years earlier to understand the phases of their financial transition and identify possible opportunities to accelerate refugees’ financial gains.