This issue of FMR looks at some of the modalities and challenges of resettlement in order to shed light on debates such as how - and how well – resettlement is managed. Resettlement is receiving greater prominence in the context of the recent surge in numbers of refugees. This traditional ‘durable solution’ – the managed movement of refugees to a safe third country – already affects many thousands of refugees every year, the communities they move into, the people they leave behind and the agenci...
Mar 23, 2017•4 min
There are certain essential elements of resettlement programming benefit both refugees and the states undertaking to receive them.
Mar 23, 2017•3 min
Around the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising it is worth looking back on the efforts to resettle refugees to see that debates about how to help are timeless.
Mar 23, 2017•10 min
There is clearly political will to engage more on refugee issues through resettlement. A defining feature of this effort is its internationalisation.
Mar 23, 2017•12 min
There is an imbalance of power - and a resulting lack of agency for refugees - in the structure of the current resettlement regime. The top-down process of selection also poses ethical dilemmas, as recent surges in resettlement operations show.
Mar 23, 2017•16 min
More than 100,000 Bhutanese refugees have been found homes in third countries. The other side to the story of this successful resettlement programme, however, is the failure to tackle the impact it has had on the remaining camp populations.
Mar 23, 2017•8 min
There are growing numbers of refugees in the UK who have been through a resettlement programme. New research in four UK cities highlights opportunities to incorporate the refugees' expertise into programme design.
Mar 23, 2017•15 min
The European Migration Network has published a study on resettlement, humanitarian admission and private sponsorship programmes in the Member States of the European Union (EU) and Norway.
Mar 23, 2017•3 min
While resettlement is nowadays considered as a solution to be resorted to only in exceptional circumstances, in Southeast Asia resettlement has always been, and remains, the most important durable solution for refugees.
Mar 23, 2017•11 min
The evolution of European policy in recent years has shown how policy can be used to actively restrict the movement of people and as a mechanism for choosing what kind of refugee a particular country receives.
Mar 23, 2017•6 min
Refugees' resettlement experiences may be shaped in the stages leading up to their arrival.
Mar 23, 2017•8 min
In February 2016 Liechtenstein introduced the LiechtensteinLanguages project (LieLa) to help asylum seekers and refugees integrate more quickly in their new country.
Mar 23, 2017•3 min
There is a lot of empirical evidence that the initial location in which refugees are resettled matters a great deal in terms of how they succeed in areas such as education and employment.
Mar 23, 2017•3 min
More and more refugees are resettled in communities where they have no intention of living and then move on.
Mar 23, 2017•13 min
At each stage of the resettlement process, the presence of counsel - legal advocates - can help refugees to present their complete cases efficiently and avoid unnecessary rejections. This provides benefits to decision makers as well.
Mar 23, 2017•4 min
Resettlement programmes for Syrian refugees severely restrict access to resettlement for single Syrian men, despite the conditions of vulnerability, insecurity and danger in which they live.
Mar 23, 2017•10 min
NGOs have a rich history of involvement in case identification and referral for resettlement, and have helped to increase numbers, improve processes and make resettlement more equitable, and accountable, for refugees.
Mar 23, 2017•12 min
With global resettlement needs growing and more refugees living outside camps, NGOs are uniquely positioned to identify and interview vulnerable refugees and to play a larger role in refugee resettlement.
Mar 23, 2017•16 min
Here is a need to ensure that new and existing initiatives to resettle refugee children at risk, including unaccompanied children, are better able to serve their unique protection needs in today's global context.
Mar 22, 2017•14 min
The relationship between government and government-contracted refugee resettlement service providers in Australia needs to be based more on autonomy and trust.
Mar 22, 2017•8 min
From 2013 the Doing Our Bit campaign has been calling for New Zealand to double its refugee quota from 750 places to 1,500.
Mar 22, 2017•9 min
The Irish government makes considerable efforts to resettle Syrian refugees arriving through the UNHCR resettlement process but offers no support to those refugees - some of whom are also from Syria - who individually seek asylum.
Mar 22, 2017•13 min
The view of integration in US resettlement policy is currently disconnected from the views of integration held by refugees themselves.
Mar 22, 2017•11 min
Refugee community groups often fill in service gaps after resettlement but remain unrecognised and not fully incorporated in formal resettlement processes.
Mar 22, 2017•9 min
The issue of 'material support' provided to an organisation deemed to be involved in terrorism has been fraught with contention in US immigration law circles, most often over the issue of support provided under duress.
Mar 22, 2017•6 min
A widely held misconception about the terrorist threat is particularly evident in refugee resettlement practices, where refugees are placed on a security continuum alongside transnational criminals and terrorists.
Mar 22, 2017•3 min
For more than a decade, the countries in the Southern Cone of South America have had a regional Solidarity Resettlement Programme.
Mar 22, 2017•16 min
For almost four decades, groups of Canadian private citizens have sponsored refugees for resettlement in addition to federal government resettlement programmes.
Mar 22, 2017•17 min
Steps for private refugee sponsorship in Canada are not clearly spelled out for those seeking to be sponsors. While the process is rewarding, it is also challenging and sometimes frustrating.
Mar 22, 2017•7 min
Despite the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program being praised for integrating refugees into the job market faster than government-assisted refugees, there may be limited cause for celebration.
Mar 22, 2017•6 min
