This new GDI summary brief includes a field-wide theory of change for ending the economic exclusion of people on the move, with pathways to improve access to safe and legal movement and employment. Drawing on input from migrants, displaced people, and would-be migrants around the world, we also present a framework centering on human needs regardless of legal category (refugee, asylum seeker, labor migrant, trafficking victim, etc.). We issue calls to action for practitioners and funders, and provide a high-level map of how funding flows can help achieve the theory of change.
Publishing Organizations: Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative
Publishing Organizations: RefugePoint, UNHCR, Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative
Authors: Sonasha Braxton, Anna Nicol, and Simar Singh (RefugePoint); Awa Ahmed Haji Omar, Sofia Casas, and Peter Ventevogel (UNHCR); Alli Gillespie and Shelby Quackenbush (RSRI)
Publishing Organizations: Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative
Publishing Organizations: New Political Economy
Authors: Ali Bhagat
Publishing Organizations: International Trade Forum; Brookings Institute
Authors: Kemal Kirişci
Publishing Organizations: National Library of Medicine; Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis
Authors: Ilana Seff, Kellie Leeson, Lindsay Stark
Publishing Organizations: Forced Migration Review; RefugePoint; Women’s Refugee Commission
Authors: Kellie C Leeson, Amy Slaughter, and Dale Buscher
Publishing Organizations: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Authors: Habiba Ibrahim; Jacinta Mutie; Mohamed Ibrahim; Anna Marie Ronning; Makayla Gille
Publishing Organizations: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the International African Institute
Authors: Maria-Theres Schuler
Publishing Organizations: The Journal of Refugee Studies
Authors: Judith Kohlenberger, Charles Martin-Shields, Evan Easton-Calabria

