Outcomes for Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees in Low and Middle-Income Countries
The paper takes stock of the growing quantitative literature on outcomes for the forcibly displaced in low- and middle-income countries, where 85 percent of refugees and nearly all internally displaced persons live. The main takeaway is that forced dis- placement research has now become a full-fledged sub-field of the migration literature: it addresses the same questions of economic and social integration, returns, and the impact of conditions and policies in the destination country. Yet, the specificity of the sub-field lies in the analysis of migration of a particularly vulnerable population because of the forced selection into displacement and because those forcibly displaced have experienced shocks before and during displacement, including the loss of physical assets, human capital, and mental health.
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2023-01
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| Subjects: | REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, FORCED DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION, HOST COMMUNITIES, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, SOCIAL INTEGRATION, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099344301182317063/IDU01413862f0e0e004212092d20c1563ef562b1 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38517 |
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| Summary: | The paper takes stock of the growing
quantitative literature on outcomes for the forcibly
displaced in low- and middle-income countries, where 85
percent of refugees and nearly all internally displaced
persons live. The main takeaway is that forced dis-
placement research has now become a full-fledged sub-field
of the migration literature: it addresses the same questions
of economic and social integration, returns, and the impact
of conditions and policies in the destination country. Yet,
the specificity of the sub-field lies in the analysis of
migration of a particularly vulnerable population because of
the forced selection into displacement and because those
forcibly displaced have experienced shocks before and during
displacement, including the loss of physical assets, human
capital, and mental health. |
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