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Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
A new article by RSC Senior Research Officer Naohiko Omata draws on qualitative research undertaken with refugees and host populations in Kenya to shed light on the complexity and variability of refugees’ economic impacts on a host community.
Refugees’ economic interactions with host communities are complex in nature, and therefore their economic impacts may be viewed, experienced and distributed unequally amongst members of the host population. Together this makes these economic impacts hard to measure.
Through a case study in Nairobi’s outskirts, the article demonstrates different patterns of engagement between refugees and the local population in the context of a labour market, and reveals contrasting views towards refugees’ economic impacts within the host community.
Naohiko Omata (2019) 'Contributors or competitors? Complexity and variability of refugees’ economic "impacts" within a Kenyan host community', Migration Letters 16 (2), DOI: 10.33182/ml.v16i2.608