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From Safe Homes to Sponsors: Lessons from the Ukraine hosting response for refugee sponsorship programmes
Europe’s hosting response for Ukrainians offers lessons for refugee sponsorship, from simpler procedures and matching to stronger safeguards for hosts and guests.
Why Matching Matters: Improving outcomes in refugee sponsorship and complementary pathways
Matching refugees to sponsors using their preferences improves integration, yet most programmes rely on narrow placement criteria that overlook refugee agency.
The Power of Refugee Sponsorship: A Sponsor’s Story
An immigration lawyer in a small Minnesota farming town formed one of the first groups to sponsor a refugee family under the new U.S. Welcome Corps program, and this is what she learned.
Inmigrantes cubanos en los Estados Unidos
La histórica emigración cubana de 2022 superó ampliamente a la crisis del Mariel y está transformando una comunidad arraigada en Estados Unidos, que se concentra principalmente en Florida.
Strengthening Refugee Engagement in Community Sponsorship Programmes
Speakers examined the challenges that hinder refugee participation in sponsorship program design and explored meaningful ways, tools, and mechanisms to effectively expand refugees’ role in current and future programmes.
Are Celebrity Spokespeople Always Helpful for Refugee Causes?
Celebrity advocacy for refugees can generate attention and donations, but research finds it may help the star more than the cause and risks oversimplifying urgent humanitarian challenges.
Cuban Immigrants in the United States
Cuba's historic pace of emigration in 2022 far eclipsed the Mariel boatlift and is reshaping a long-established community in the United States, Florida in particular.
Achieving Meaningful International Cooperation on Displacement: Can the 2023 Global Refugee Forum Deliver?
The 2023 Global Refugee Forum will test whether global solidarity for refugees and their hosts can be revived as the political environment cools in many countries. With responses to major displacement crises since 2019 largely taking place outside forum and Global Compact on Refugees processes, preserving the relevance of the forum and the compact will require going beyond counting pledges in Geneva, as this commentary explains.
Attracting, Retaining, and Diversifying Sponsors for Refugees in Community Sponsorship Programmes
European refugee sponsorship programmes fell far short of targets due to narrow outreach, burdensome requirements, and weak retention. To scale, they will need fundamental redesign.
Managing Changing Migration Dynamics and Policies in West Africa for Regional Gain
Most migration in West Africa happens within West Africa, so what does regional migration governance look like and who is shaping it?
