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The politics of Syrian refugees’ economic impact

Claude Samaha is Lead Researcher at Basmeh & Zeitooneh and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team.  Policymakers in Lebanon argue that displaced people, particularly Syrian refugees, are one of the causes of the country’s failing economy. Syrian refugees

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Not a burden: Somali refugees transform Dollo Ado into an onion export zone

Fekadu Adugna is Project Coordinator at the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team. Dollo Ado is a district in south-eastern Ethiopia bordering Somalia to the east

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Emotions in the fieldwork

Claude Samaha, Lead Researcher at Basmeh & Zeitooneh and a member of the Protracted Displacement Economies (PDE) team.  Resnik argues that ‘an objective researcher (or project, report, or study) is like a judge who attempts to give a fair hearing to both

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‘Mana pfasha’: The incredible resilience of Rwandan refugees in Masisi, DRC

José Mvuezolo Bazonzi, Coordinator of Groupe de Recherche et d’Etudes Stratégiques sur le Congo (GREC) at the University of Kinshasa, and a member of the Protracted Displacements Economies (PDE) team.  Generally settled in planned camps – with or without the

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