Refugees Are Hosted in Highly Vulnerable Communities

C. Austin Davis, Paula López-Peña, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak and Jaya Y. Wen

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024, vol. 114, 75-79

Abstract: Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial variability in refugee-hosting responsibilities. We find that hosting responsibilities for the displaced Rohingya people in Bangladesh are allocated in similarly unequal fashion when analyzed at the national, regional, and microregional levels. Refugee camps are placed in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities relative to both Bangladesh as a whole and surrounding areas. Our findings underscore the importance of considering host communities in the coordination of humanitarian responses to refugee crises to prevent economic hardship and political backlash.

JEL-codes: D72 J15 J18 K37 O15 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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