Archive of Theme: Migration

Exploring The Intersection Of Climate Change And Mobility Dynamics

Exploring The Intersection Of Climate Change And Mobility Dynamics

Exploring The Intersection Of Climate Change And Mobility Dynamics

Migration and mobility are key considerations with regard to the impact of climate change. In the Middle East, a region of large-scale internal, intra-regional and inter-regional migration, the implications are varied and complex. Expectation State (ES) collaborated with The Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) to assess the nexus between climate change and migration in the Middle East.  The initiative, funded by the Danish Refugee Council, assessed Read More

Researching the Impact of Safe Mobility Offices in Latin America

Researching the Impact of Safe Mobility Offices in Latin America

Safe Mobility Offices (SMOs) have been established by the United States in Latin America to manage large-scale migration flows, providing lawful pathways and reducing risks associated with irregular migration. Despite their recent inception, SMOs have faced criticism regarding accessibility, eligibility, Read More

Learning Partnership: DREEM Programme

Learning Partnership: DREEM Programme

Expectation State is working with World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and Mastercard Foundation on the Displaced and Refugee youth Enabling Environment Mechanism (DREEM). This five-year project seeks to foster knowledge sharing and identify opportunities to enhance the inclusion of Read More

Conducting a Rapid Assessment of the Refugee and Host Community Ecosystem in Uganda

Conducting a Rapid Assessment of the Refugee and Host Community Ecosystem in Uganda

With one of the most open-door refugee policies in the world, Uganda stands out as a significant refugee hosting country in Africa, offering opportunities aiming at the resettlement of the refugees. In collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation and World University Read More

Researching Devolution and Refugees Rights in Kenya

Researching Devolution and Refugees Rights in Kenya

Global failures to resolve conflicts that have generated refugees, alongside a corresponding failure to find solutions to displacement, have led to protracted exile for a significant proportion of the world’s refugees. This has had a major impact on countries in Read More

Integrating refugees into West African economies

Integrating refugees into West African economies

The Central Sahel is currently the fastest growing displacement crisis in the world, with ramifications for the wider West Africa region. Yet the ability for refugees and IDPs to play an active role in the economy is severely limited.  In Read More

Assessing Barriers to Refugee Lens Investment in Jordan

Assessing Barriers to Refugee Lens Investment in Jordan

Jordan hosts the second largest proportion of refugees per capita in the world, but their ability to engage in the formal economy can be limited. The nascent field of Refugee Lens Investing is gradually decoding how global investors can better Read More

Mapping the migration landscape across the MENA region

Mapping the migration landscape across the MENA region

People have always moved, and the MENA region, more than any other, has a long history of migration related to trade, tribal pastoralism, war, conflict and the growth of Islam. Migration has made MENA what it is today.  In 2021, Read More