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New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.

New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.

A debit card issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is being used to pay for a U.S. invasion.

Ongoing fighting in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp may be part of a plan to weaken Fatah and undermine normalization with Israel.

Topics covered include affirmative action, legacy preferences, the student loan forgiveness decision, refugee policy, indictments against Trump, Vladimir Putin, political ignorance, and more.

Anstiftung oder Menschlichkeit? – Gemeinfrei-ähnlich freigegeben durch unsplash.com Maria TenevaMit einer Richtlinie will die EU-Kommission Mindeststrafen für Schleusungskriminalität in Europa angleichen. Doch der Gesetzesvorschlag könnte auch dafür sorgen, dass Slogans wie "Refugees Welcome" auf Online-Plattformen gelöscht werden.

Thirty-six Haitian refugees landed in northeastern Jamaica on September 9 and were sent back two days later, while CARICOM noted the "alarming deterioration" of Haiti's security situation.

While Taipei continues to support Ukraine by sending humanitarian aid, including to refugees across Europe, official Kyiv sides with Beijing and fails to acknowledge Taiwan's overall support.

So how do the countries that refugees and asylum-seekers flee to respond? And what determines the degree to which these countries adopt an open or a closed approach?

The slogan "We will not let Israeli refugees into Dagestan" arose from the assumption that the "Mountain Jews" living in Israel would want to send their women, children, and old people to where they lived before.

Protests, disinformation campaigns, and economically unsubstantiated restrictive measures are some of the tactics that official Moscow uses against Moldova. UNHCR data indicates that Moldova is hosting over 100,000 refugees from Ukraine and other countries.

Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign includes plans to build mass detention camps, suspend the refugee program and invoke a centuries-old law to deport people without due process. How viable is his plan from a legal standpoint?

UNHCR, das steht für United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Auf deutsch der Hohe Flüchtlingskommissar der Vereinten Nationen. Die Vereinten Nationen gründeten die Institution am 14. Dezember 1950, am 01. Januar 1951 nahm sie ihre Arbeit auf. Vorläuferorganisationen Das Flüchtlingskommissariat des Völkerbundes Das UNHCR Behörde ist eine Nachfolgeorganisation des Flüchtlingskommissariats ... mehr
Der Beitrag 14.12.1950: Gründung des UNHCR erschien zuerst auf Demokratiegeschichten.

Addressing Evidence Gaps to Facilitate Strategic Decision Making for Displaced PopulationsHumanitarian crises are fueling an increase in the number of forcibly displaced people around the world, yet a lack of quality evidence surrounding interventions and programs makes it difficult to decide how to allocate limited funding. In this blog, Forced Displacement Research Associate Mansi Kalra outlines CEGA's new effort to close the evidence gap, produce new insights to guide policymakers, and improve the lives of displaced people.Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan, built to house Syrian refugees | WikimediaAn Unmet Need for EvidenceToday, low- and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected by displacement, with about three-fourths of the world's poorest people living in fragile contexts. Humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, and Ukraine have generated an unprecedented increase in the number of forcibly displaced people around the world. Most decision-makers lack the resources to support these nearly 2 billion people. Faced with such urgent needs, it's critical that leaders can access the right evidence to make effective decisions.Unfortunately, very little causal evidence exists on what works best in conflict and crisis settings. To fill these critical knowledge gaps and help improve lives, CEGA will expand the evidence base by scaling ongoing research and expanding a coordinated portfolio of research through its existing Forced Displacement Initiative. At last December's Global Refugee Forum, CEGA outlined its four-step approach:To build research capacity, CEGA will launch a fellowship program that supports scholars affected by displacement or who study displacement in their home countries.CEGA will collect new rounds of data in two longitudinal panel studies that report on economic inclusion, social protection, and other policy-relevant outcomes.CEGA will also invest in partnerships that facilitate collaboration between research, policy, and practitioner communities concerned with forced displacement.CEGA will develop and promote a set of ethical guidelines for researchers who work with displaced populations.Centering Displaced VoicesCEGA is committed to supporting people directly impacted by forced displacement by providing opportunities for leadership, learning, and talent development to researchers with lived experiences of displacement. Our proposed fellowship program will equip scholars with the skills, networks, and resources they need to develop their careers and lend their voices to research and policy debates while increasing the evidence base that leaders can use to drive innovative, sustainable, and locally-led solutions to displacement.Expanding Panel Datasets to Create Lasting Public GoodsOne of CEGA's unique contributions is the creation of longitudinal panels. These studies track displaced populations over time and measure a wide array of demographic, social, and financial data. The first of these studies is the Syrian Refugee Life Study, a representative panel of Syrian refugees in Jordan that generates evidence for key policy questions. Currently, data and materials from the in-person 2020 partial survey round are available on the Harvard Dataverse, and additional rounds of data will be made publicly available in the coming months. This open source public good is a highly beneficial tool made available to the research community at large. CEGA also led the creation of the Kenya Analytical Program on Forced Displacement, a panel of 6,000 refugee households and 3,500 Kenyan. These projects are conducted in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other decision makers, thereby ensuring that policymakers are included in this work. Through the creation of these datasets, CEGA is expanding the availability of robust data and closing the evidence gap.Creating Collaborative Relationships for Informed Decision MakingAs funding for humanitarian efforts becomes increasingly constrained, it is critical that the limited funds are directed to the most cost effective and impactful interventions. To advance this effort, major donors can invest in the creation of basic evidence and expand critical experimentation. One such example is the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Refugees Initiative which recently collaborated with CEGA to develop a rapid review of youth livelihoods interventions in displacement settings.CEGA's review of the evidence finds:A dearth of quality evidence available to guide decisions about the effectiveness of interventions among refugee and displaced populations;Limited impact evaluations of interventions for displaced populations that integrate cost analysis into their design;Multiple layers of context that make it difficult to generalize and adapt policies and programs "off the shelf" from one setting to another.These findings raise a key question: What is the strategy for an evidence-based approach to investing in interventions that work when the relevant evidence is so limited and where the complex context constrains the options? Expanding future investments in research will be critical to answering this question, and CEGA is actively working to build these necessary partnerships.Grounding Our Work in EthicsDisplacement settings are particularly prone to ethical challenges and clear guidelines are critical to building trust with respondents and ensuring that researchers do no harm. CEGA is developing a set of practices to incentivize and institutionalize an ethical approach in our displacement research, and is working with partners to ensure these practices are applied effectively. The Center's aim is to develop a framework for our own research and disseminate these findings to the larger research community.The Realities of Forced DisplacementToday, more than 100 million people are forcibly displaced. The need for a robust evidence base to inform critical responses has never been higher, and this work never more pressing. To learn more about CEGA's Forced Displacement Initiative and ongoing research, please refer to this link.UNHCR Global Trends Forced Displacement Flow: depicting refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection displaced from 1975–2022.Evidence Generation: A Critical Tool for Understanding Displacement was originally published in CEGA on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

A year before the EU referendum, I gave a speech at a media conference in Germany. The topic was how some newspapers and politicians in Britain are spreading hatred and lies about migrants and refugees.
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