Assessing the Impacts of Hosting Refugees /

The measures and concepts research for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in these documents do not necessarily reflect and the World Bank, and also adjunct teaches the views of the World Refugee Council. [...] Initiatives in the 1980s found that while it was widely assumed that the presence of large Introduction refugee populations in poorer host states resulted in a range of burdens, the nature of these burdens was “almost impossible Understanding the impacts of hosting refugees is to verify with hard data” (Gorman 1987, at the centre of crafting responses that minimize 30). [...] In response, a number of indicators the costs and risks assumed by host countries and have been used to measure the relative communities, maximize the protection available burden borne by various countries: to refugees, and utilize resources efficiently and effectively. [...] Assessing the Impacts of Hosting Refugees 1 • number of refugees relative However, there is also a large body of scholarship to the national population that demonstrates how refugees can be an economic (refugees per capita); and benefit.3 When refugees have access to land, the labour market and livelihood opportunities and • number of refugees relative to the wealth enjoy freedom of movement, they [...] Data for refugees in the environment, including deforestation; de-vegetation; United States, for example, indicates that despite an erosion; the destruction, degradation and pollution initial cost in assistance to refugees resettling to the of water sources and catchment areas; illegal United States, over the years, refugees are a net gain poaching and fishing; and overgrazing.11 In some to the ec