Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Subject "Refugees"
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Eastern Sudan: Hosting Ethiopian refugees under tough conditions
(Report, 2021-10-01)Many communities in Eastern Sudan host a large number of Ethiopian refugees. Conditions in the refugee camps are extremely harsh, and there is widespread fear within the host communities that the presence of refugees will ... -
EFFEXT Background Paper – National and international migration policy in Ethiopia
(Others, 2022-09-01)This EFFEXT Background Paper provides a brief presentation of migration and migration policy dynamics in Ethiopia. It presents an overview of key national and international migration policies, and outlines the key migration ... -
EFFEXT Background Paper – National and international migration policy in Lebanon
(Others, 2022-12-01)This EFFEXT Background Paper provides a brief presentation of migration and migration policy dynamics between the European Union (EU) and Lebanon. It presents an overview of key Lebanese national and international ... -
EFFEXT Background Papers – National and international migration policy in Ghana
(Others, 2023-03-01)About the EFFEXT Background Papers The Effects of Externalisation: EU Migration Management in Africa and the Middle East (EFFEXT) project examines the effects of the EU’s external migration management policies ... -
Grassroots Responses to Mass Migration in Europe: Introduction
(Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics vol. 7 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-01) -
Income-generating Programmes in Pakistan and Malawi: A Comparative Review
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper reviews income-generating programmes in Pakistan and Malawi organised by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). It compares the different strategies chosen by the NRC regarding project design and the creation of ... -
Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are waging a bloody war of attrition ... -
No Longer a Guest: Permitting Syrians in Sudan
(Report, 2020-12-01)When Syrian refugees first started arriving to Sudan in 2014 they were welcomed as guests. But Sudan’s economic crisis combined with Syrians’ success in business has created antagonism. The transitional government ... -
Protective Strategies in the 1990s: A Review of the Policy Discourses in UNHCR and the Executive Committee. Report prepared under a grant from the Research Programme on Forced Migration, the Research Council of Norway
(Research report, Research report, 1998)The study examines changing policy doctrines for protecting refugees, as reflected in the official documents of UNHCR and its Executive Committee (ExCom) composed of nation states. Collectively, the two bodies determine ... -
Research guide: Refugee settlement and encampment in the Middle East and North Aftica, 1860-1940s
(Others, 2021-01-01)The following blog post was published on Refugee History in september 2021. See attached PDF Research guide. We’ve just added a research guide to refugee settlement and encampment in the Middle East and North Africa ... -
Review of Right to Play
(Research report, Report, 2006)Right to Play (former Olympic Aid), is an athlete-driven international humanitarian organisation which uses sport and play as a development tool for children and youth. The central delivery method is through international ... -
Safeguarding the Right to Asylum
(Working paper, Working paper, 1992)The paper was prepared for a UN Expert Group meeting in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, January 1993, in preparation for the 1994 World Conference on Population and Development. The paper analyzes the challenges which contemporary ... -
South Sudan “arrivals” in the White Nile State (Sudan). Not citizens, not IDPs, not Refugees: What are they?
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:7, Working paper, 2016-12-01)This paper discusses the living conditions of the so called “arrivals,”{1} South Sudanese refugees in Sudan, most of whom now reside in the White Nile State (58 %) and in Khartoum (23 %), and the rest of which live in ... -
Special Issue: Grassroots Responses to Mass Migration in Europe
(Book, 2021-07-01)The range of grassroots responses to the 2015 migration reception crisis is vast. Depending on the local, national, and migratory contexts, different groups employed different modalities and policies to help the people on ... -
Syria's refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden and bone of contention
(Lebanon Facing the Arab Uprisings: Between Internal Challenges and External Constraints, Chapter, 2017-01-01)The Syrian civil war has displaced more than one million Syrians as refugees in Lebanon. Lebanon has not set up formal camps, but instituted a “non–camp” approach, meaning that nearly all the refugees are self–settled and ... -
Syrian Self-settlement in Lebanon’s ‘Arrival Cities’: Refugee Livelihoods in Tripoli, Beirut, and Tyre
(Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East, Chapter, 2024-03-01)Taking arrival cities as their point of departure, Robert Forster and Are John Knudsen compare settlement choices and outcomes for Syrian refugees living in the poorest neighbourhoods in Beirut, Tripoli and Tyre. The latter ... -
The Humanitarian Theater in the Mediterranean and the Threat of Violence in the Balkans
(Journal of Borderlands Studies, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-01)This article compares the Mediterranean and the Balkan routes of migration into the European Union, exploring the (in)visibility and (un)knowability of the management of European borderlands. It offers a historical overview ... -
The Law, the Loss and the Lives of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)Lebanon has been a reluctant host to Palestinian refugees since 1948. A mainstay of Lebanese policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugees has been preventing their permanent integration and settlement in the country. The ... -
The spatial governance of the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan: Refugees between urban settlements and encampment policies
(CMI Report 2023:3, Research report, 2023-08-01)This CMI Report presents a critical analysis of the Jordans’ governance of the Syrian refugee crisis and discusses the spatial policies in the framework of space and power. It identifies a shift in the direction of governance ... -
Urban Displacement in Lebanon: Syrians in Tripoli
(CMI Report 2021:5, Research report, 2021-11-01)Living conditions among Syrians in Tripoli, Lebanon, have deteriorated since 2011. Syrian refugee households that achieved some degree of stability after self-settlement reported an upheaval in livelihoods amidst declining ...