Preventing displacement (Forced Migration Review 41)

FMR 41 Challenging RSD clients' preferences for foreign service providers

Organisations that provide legal services to refugees and asylum seekers face the challenge of responding ethically to clients' requests to be assisted by foreigners as opposed to by nationals in country offices.

FMR 41 Overseas cultural orientation programmes and resettled refugees' perceptions

Resettled refugees often have misconceptions about their potential for self-sufficiency in the United States, and experience adjustment problems after their arrival.

FMR 41 Are refugees an economic burden or benefit?

Governments emphasise the negative impacts and costs but these, although undeniable and well documented, are only part of the picture.

FMR 41 From the Nansen Principles to the Nansen Initiative

The Nansen Initiative launched in October 2012 aims to build consensus among states about how best to address cross-border displacement in the context of sudden- and slow-onset disasters.

FMR 41 Lessons from mobilisation around slum evictions in Tanzania

A study of forced urban eviction in Tanzania shows that grassroots mobilisation alone may be unable to confront the challenges of displacement and that there are risks when mobilisation around displacement is premised on unrealistic expectations.