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Blog Post
June 07, 2023
Humanitarian crises are increasingly protracted and complex, lacking clear solutions and paths to reach the most-affected individuals and communities. Implementers need to constantly reflect on what is and what is not working within, and adapt accordingly. Our Re:Build project has been attempting t...
Blog Post
May 04, 2023
Last week, the World Bank published the 2023 edition of its World Development Report (WDR), with a focus on “Migrants, Refugees, and Societies.” The report provides a sweeping overview of the issues facing migrants, refugees, and countries of origin, transit, and destination, encapsulating it all in...
Blog Post
September 06, 2022
Cameroon has long welcomed people fleeing crisis, and today hosts a diverse population of more than 460,000 refugees, asylum-seekers, and one million internally displaced persons (IDPs). Under the leadership of Paul Biya—the “second-longest-ruling head of state in the world who isn’t a monarch”—Came...
Blog Post
August 29, 2022
We know that climate change will alter migration patterns and increase movement in some places. But despite hundreds, if not thousands, of studies, we still don’t know who will move because of climate change, or precisely how or where. Part of that is a conceptual problem: what exactly is a ‘climate...
Blog Post
August 11, 2022
Migrants also contribute massively to their home economies: in 2020, migrant workers’ transfers home made the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia into the second- and third-highest sources of remittances globally, despite COVID-19 reducing the number of migrants. Concerns regarding abuses of...
Blog Post
July 28, 2022
Today we published the 2022 Global Refugee Work Rights Report, a joint report with Asylum Access and Refugees International that documents and analyzes the extent to which refugees have the right to work, both in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto), in 51 countries. This blog introduces our fin...