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Protracted Displacement: Uncertain Paths to Self-Reliance in Exile

This report mentions that “protractedness” has become a prominent feature of forced displacement. With more than 60 million refugees and internally displaced persons around the world, more and more people have been displaced for years on end. At the end of 2014, half of all refugees had been in exile for over ten years. This…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Report

Sanctuary in The City? Urban Displacement and Vulnerability Final Report

While a number of studies in recent years have sought to analyse urban livelihoods and governance, little is known about how displaced people negotiate their way in the urban environment, their relationships with host communities and governance institutions and their specific vulnerabilities as compared with other urban residents. Likewise, there is poor documentation and analysis…
  • Publication year: 2013
  • Content Type: Report

Mass Displacement and the Challenge for Urban Resilience

This report examines all forms of migration: forced and voluntary, domestic and cross-border, and in response to different pressures (particularly disasters and conflict). It focuses on the very large numbers of people moving out of conflict-affected places, across international borders, into urban areas of neighbouring or nearby countries. The report assesses the impact of mass…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Report

Time to Let Go: Remaking Humanitarian Action for the Modern Era

It is time for the humanitarian sector to let go of some of the fundamental- but outdated- assumptions, structures and behaviours that prevent it from adapting to meet the needs of people in crises. This is a proposal for radical change to create a humanitarian system that is fit to respond to the challenges of…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Report

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