Urban shelter and the limits of humanitarian action
Traditionally there has been a focus on the delivery of ‘products’ to meet the shelter needs of individual families, often in a rural setting. In an urban context, the focus…
The contribution of the private sector to solutions for displacement
Over recent years businesses with a social conscience have increasingly been moving from pure philanthropy and promotion of responsible business practices to business partnership models. This means the role of…
Limitations of development-oriented assistance in Uganda
The idea of linking refugee protection and assistance programmes with development aid is far from a new idea, with its potential as a win-win situation for donors and asylum states…
The weakness of resettlement safeguards in mining
Studies of displacement and resettlement associated with mining operations continue to demonstrate consistently high levels of impoverishment among displaced people,[1] and that knowledge-building and management practices within the mining industry…
Assisted Voluntary Return: implications for women and children
Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programmes are schemes to assist asylum seekers to return to their countries of origin. The programmes normally help refugees by arranging their travel and providing them…
Responding to LGBT forced migration in East Africa
Over the past decade, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Ugandans have sought safety and asylum in various countries but never in such numbers or with such a high degree…
¿El camino más concurrido? Los desplazamientos secundarios de los solicitantes de asilo y refugiados
La mayoría de los solicitantes de asilo que han llegado a la Unión Europea (UE) en 2015 lo han hecho a través de medios irregulares por tierra o por mar,…
Resolving protracted displacement through social housing
By 2011 – 16 years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement – the return process in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was considered successful by many standards. Of the…
Their last name is ‘refugee’: return and local activism
As a result of the 1992-95 war, over two million people – fully half the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) – were displaced. Of that number, well over a…
Interpretations of Annex 7: assessing the impact on non-returnees in the UK
The majority of people from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) living in the United Kingdom (UK) today made the decision to leave their home country and make a temporary or permanent…