Forced Displacement and Asylum Policy in the Developing World

Blair, Christopher; Grossman, Guy; Weinstein, Jeremy M.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3565557

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“…About 65 percent of the country's refugee population is from South Sudan; the remainder come Uganda's liberal refugee and asylum policies-as codified in its 2006 National Refugees Actpartly explain why it attracts so many refugees (Blair, Grossman and Weinstein, 2021b). Based on data collected on refugee and asylum policies in a large sample of 128 developing countries, Blair, Grossman and Weinstein (2021a) ranked Uganda as having the second-most liberal refugee and asylum policies in their sample. It is also a party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1977 protocol, and a signatory of the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa.…”

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Inclusive Refugee-Hosting in Uganda Improves Local Development and Prevents Public Backlash

Zhou¹,

Grossman²,

Ge³

2022

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Inclusive Refugee-Hosting in Uganda Improves Local Development and Prevents Public Backlash

Zhou¹,

Grossman²,

Ge³

2022

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“…This set of indicators compares the laws and policies for the integration of refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection in 15 European countries. Similarly, Blair et al (2020) analysed both admission and integration policies for refugee policies. Second, family reunification is correlated to both factors, although primarily to control.…”

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“…For example, MIPEX and CDI (migration strand) have expanded their scope by including China, India, Indonesia, some Latin‐American countries and others (CGDEV, 2020; Solano and Huddleston, 2020). Also, Blair and colleagues (2020) analysed asylum and refugee policies in more than 90 developing countries.…”

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Beyond immigration: Moving from Western to Global Indexes of Migration Policy

Solano

Huddleston

2021

Global Policy

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Over the last twenty years, researchers have undertaken systematic comparison of migration policy by creating sets of policy indicators/indexes at the national level. These indicators are designed to analyse the differences and trends in migration policy and then be used by the research community to assess the determinants and effects of policy. This article aims to assess the comprehensiveness of current migration policy indicators by analysing their thematic, geographical and temporal coverage as a way of understanding how migration policy has been conceptualised and measured in quantitative migration research. Our analysis of the 67 existing indexes shows that they disproportionally focus on immigration policy, mainly admission and citizenship, in OECD and particularly Western European countries, with limited opportunities for longitudinal analysis of policy change. These findings reveal that migration policy has been largely conceptualised in indexes as a contemporary phenomenon, concerning mainly Western countries that have become major destination countries.

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“…Generally, refugee settlements are found to be especially vulnerable to climate change impacts through systematic geographic isolation in environmentally vulnerable locations. Furthermore, restrictive local asylum policies are found to reinforce disenfranchisement of refugees and often limit their abilities to cope with changing environmental conditions [2,18]. This vulnerability to climate change makes the need to understand refugeeenvironment relationships even more pressing.…”

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Using transfer learning to study burned area dynamics: A case study of refugee settlements in West Nile, Northern Uganda

Huppertz¹,

Nakalembe²,

Kerner³

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With the global refugee crisis at a historic high, there is a growing need to assess the impact of refugee settlements on their hosting countries and surrounding environments. Because fires are an important land management practice in smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, burned area (BA) mappings can help provide information about the impacts of land management practices on local environments. However, a lack of BA ground-truth data in much of sub-Saharan Africa limits the use of highly scalable deep learning (DL) techniques for such BA mappings. In this work, we propose a scalable transfer learning approach to study BA dynamics in areas with little to no ground-truth data such as the West Nile region in Northern Uganda. We train a deep learning model on BA ground-truth data in Portugal and propose the application of that model on refugee-hosting districts in West Nile between 2015 and 2020. By comparing the district-level BA dynamic with the wider West Nile region, we aim to add understanding of the land management impacts of refugee settlements on their surrounding environments. CCS CONCEPTS• Applied computing → Environmental sciences; Agriculture; Cartography; • Computing methodologies → Machine learning.

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Forced Displacement and Asylum Policy in the Developing World

Cited by 15 publications

References 107 publications

Inclusive Refugee-Hosting in Uganda Improves Local Development and Prevents Public Backlash

Inclusive Refugee-Hosting in Uganda Improves Local Development and Prevents Public Backlash

Beyond immigration: Moving from Western to Global Indexes of Migration Policy

Using transfer learning to study burned area dynamics: A case study of refugee settlements in West Nile, Northern Uganda

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