TRAFIG: Transnational Figurations of Displacement, Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations

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Geographic focus

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Tanzania, Jordan, Pakistan, Greece, Italy and Germany

Dates

1 January 2019 –

30 June 2022

About

Public policy recommendations to improve livelihoods and self-reliance in protracted displacement situations. 

Project Outcomes

  • The TRAFIG project investigated the reasons why people end up in protracted displacement situations and what coping strategies they use, thus identifying possible courses of action for policymakers.
  • Most refugees are often better connected than previously thought. However, the extent, intensity, and reliability of transnational ties varied between countries, sites, and focal groups.
  • The better the local, national, and transnational support networks function, the better-displaced people can cope with multiple challenges they encounter after displacement, and the easier it is for them to rebuild their lives and thus move out of a protracted situation.  

Highlighted Publications and Tools

  • Trafig policy handbook – Provides takeaways, examples, policy recommendations and best practices.
  • Synthesis report – This report brings together the central findings of the TRAFIG project’s empirical study.
  • Policy briefs – Policy recommendations.
  • Toolkit – Four tools for practitioners to foster connectivity and mobility as part of sustainable solutions to protracted displacement.
  • Data dashboard – Visual toolbox to provide a first insight into the findings of the TRAFIG survey data.
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Coordinators

Benjamin Etzold, Senior Researcher, Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies

Partners

  • Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies
  • Addis Ababa University
  • Aristotle university of Thessaloniki
  • Chr. Michelsen Institute
  • Danube University Krems
  • Dignity Kwanza – Community Solutions
  • Forum of International and European Research on Immigration
  • International Centre for Migration Policy Development
  • Society for Human Rights and Prisoner's Aid
  • Leiden University
  • University of Sussex
  • Yarmouk University 

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