Forced Migration Research From Theory to Practice in Promoting Migrant Well-Being: Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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The Committee on Population (CPOP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a 2-day public workshop May 21–22, 2019, in Washington, DC, designed to bring fresh and innovative approaches in social demographic theory, methodology, data collection and analysis, and practice and applications to the community of researchers and practitioners who are concerned with better understanding and assisting forced migrant populations.
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noted that there is still a long way to go in terms of fully integrating knowledge of forced migration into the mainstream demographic literature and in fully integrating knowledge of demography into the programs, policy, and practice of forced migration response and prevention. She said that the workshop was designed to create an ongoing dialogue between demographic researchers and those who work directly with forced migrant populations to improve the health and well-being of forced migrants and to promote sustainable and just humanitarian solutions to forced migration.
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The numbers of forced migrants are large and increasing; migrants make rational choices about whether and where to migrate, and many people who migrate have mixed and often interconnected motives for leaving their home countries; low- and middleincome countries host many more forced migrants than do high-income countries; many refugees are in situations of protracted displacement, with few able to access durable solutions; and the regulation of irregular migrants and border control are becoming increasingly restrictive.
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A promising example of survey research is the Mexican Migration Project, which began in 1982 and was subsequently supplemented by the Latin American Migration Project; these studies have not focused specifically on forced migration, but the methodologies are nevertheless relevant. Key strengths of these projects have included the gathering of life histories and the use of an ethnosurvey that blends quantitative and qualitative methods in an informal and nonthreatening context that produces standardized data.
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The session on incorporating research into program design, monitoring, and evaluation, summarized in Chapter 7, similarly looked at three case studies to draw broader lessons on the value of research to practitioners and vice versa: the outcomes and evidence framework created by the International Rescue Committee, research partnerships developed by the New York Immigration Coalition, and participatory approaches to work with children in Africa who have been subjected to the horrors of war. An underlying issue was how to engage researchers and practitioners with each other.
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