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BRIEFING: City planning with displaced communities: the benefits of inclusion --> iied.org/21271iied Camps are not the choice of the majority of the world’s displaced people. Estimates suggest that over 60% of #refugees & half of internally displaced persons live in cities.

Three years later, I have finally written something based on my PhD! Completely thanks to my co-author Deniz Ozturk whose work on women's cooperatives in Turkey provides such a great example of socio-economic integration for Syrian refugees, and its gendered difficulties.

Find out how women's cooperatives in Turkey are helping Syrian #Refugees integrate - IIED's Boel McAteer writes in this month's Forced Migration Review

Ways to help our Syrian and Turkish friends and colleagues globalcitizen.org/en/content/way…

Join my team for a whole (hybrid) day talking urban development!

📣#Vacancy: Doctoral Position in Sociology with a focus on Migration and Integration 📚Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg ⏳Deadline for applications: 4 April 2023 🔎Find out more: imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/…

WATCH: The cost of camps: the impacts of a temporary fix for a protracted problem: youtube.com/watch?v=z5uLbV… This narrated presentation by Lucy Earle and Boel McAteer outlines findings from two projects that take a fresh look at long-term forced #displacement.

Glad to see that European Commission is taking action to empower refugee women via cooperatives. Boel McAteer and I had looked at the role of coops in providing sustainable livelihoods for refugees in Turkey. See our recommendations at University of Oxford Forced Migration Review fmreview.org/issue71/mcatee…

The Swedish government has cut funding for development research within the aid budget. - Sign the Petition! chng.it/rYYhbSzg via Change.org UK

Submit an abstract now to join my team for our research symposium - Forced displacement and the city - in London 26-27 September! iied.org/forced-displac…

Apply now to be a part of the special issue of E&U on Forced displacement and the city!

For those of you doing research with urban refugees and IDPs - come and present a paper in London!

“This photo inspired me to work on displacement and disabilities,” Peter said, “because I wondered how people would get up the steps.”

Check out the new photostory from IIED’s team working on forced displacement. We interviewed 8 Somali women refugees whose paths diverged after they reached Kenya. Read their stories from the camp and the city here: iied.org/diverging-path…

It’s the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva this week. Can we use the platforms (finally) made available to discuss urban refugees to shift the stereotypes about who they are, their needs for assistance and their right to settle in cities? iied.org/international-…

Finishing off the year with a new publication on integration and healthcare in Nairobi. Thanks to my co-authors Salam and Jackline, Lucy Earle for guidance, clayton boeyink for editing and Jeff Crisp for peer review! Read it here: doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.…

NEW ISSUE: 'Forced displacement and the city' on the need for a rights-based approach in urban displacement response: recognize cities as productive places for refugees & IDPs to live in and their need for progressive social & economic inclusion Read --> bit.ly/4h13u14

📰 In a recent dialogue, Kellie Leeson (Women's Refugee Commission) and Boel McAteer (IIED) elaborate on empirical examples of self-reliance programs as either beneficial or counterproductive to achieving genuine self-reliance in urban settings. Read the paper: buff.ly/3UoXkOk (1/2)

Join me on Wednesday to discuss refugee self-reliance with @kellieforny and our panellists!