Most refugees rarely gain citizenship in host countries and the work that is available to them is informal, irregular and precarious.
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Informal sector organisations in Zimbabwe have the potential to influence politics at a personal and societal level.
Our “Self-Reliance Index” helps organisations and governments assess how their programmes are doing in helping refugees to become self-reliant.
A British literature scholar explains how philosopher John Locke’s theory of selfhood will not help the pandemic recovery, if individuals fail to see themselves as interconnected.
The Zapotec people of southern Mexico have always relied on each other to solve problems when the government can’t, or won’t, help. That’s proving to be a pretty effective pandemic response.
Refugee self-reliance is a laudable goal, yet self-reliance agendas must account for refugees’ individual circumstances.
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Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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Professor of Anthropology, Director, Transnational Research Lab, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor of Public Health and Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
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Research Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
