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Adams, Richard. "Worker Remittances and Inequality in Rural Egypt." Economic Development and Cultural Change 38.1 (1989): 45-71. Link to Article
Keyword: economic development, remittances, inequality, rural, Egypt, migrant, workers
This article attempts to overcome the various problems involving measuring the implications of remittances on rural households by proposing an alternative framework and technique for measuring the impact of remittance on rural income distribution. it examines the implications of international remittances on rural socioeconomic order in Minya, Egypt. The data for the study was extrapolated from 1,000 households surveys in Minya Province between 1986-87. The study finds that remittances from abroad had a negative impact on rural households income distribution both in gross and per capita terms.
Chantal, Thomas. “Migrant Domestic Workers in Egypt: A Case Study of the Economic Family in Global Context.” The American Journal of Comparative Law 58.4 (2010): 987-1022. Link to Article
Keyword: migrant, domestic, workers, Egypt, family, law
This study links the legal framework affecting labor conditions of sub-Saharan Africa asylum seekers who are migrant domestic workers in Egypt with a broader question of 'family' in a global political and economic context. The author argues that domestic and international law fail to provide adequate assistance to bargain in securing livelihood strategies, but these frameworks inevitably construct the environment for them: "foreground" rules of employment and contract law (but not family law) affect the bargaining environment for migrant domestic workers; "background" rules, those related to sovereignty and immigration, also crucially influence the bargaining environment.
El-Shaarawi, Nadia. "Living an Uncertain Future: Temporality, Uncertainty, and Well-Being among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt." Social Analysis 59.1 (2015): 38-56. Link to Article
Keyword: Egypt, Iraqi refugees, uncertain, temporality, resettlement, urban refugees
This article considers the interplay of temporal and spatial uncertainty in the experience of Iraqi refugees in Cairo. The author argues that by examining how Iraqis understand displacement as uncertain, an attunement to temporality provides an avenue for understanding the refugees' experiences of displacement. The author finds that Iraqi refugees speak of exile in Cairo as 'living in transit,' and thus await resettlement in a third country, a process which often renders their future more uncertain.
Geddes, Andrew. "Governing Migration from a Distance: Interactions Between Climate, Migration and Security in the South Mediterranean." European Security 24.3 (2015): 473-490. Link to Article
Keyword: environmental refugees, environmental migrants, environmental displacement, security, Egypt, South Mediterranean, Climate change
The Article asses the link between the environment, and the security and migration nexus by assessing the EU's external governance policies in the “South Mediterranean Partner Countries” (SMPCs): Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia. The author argues that, given the data, migration triggered by climate changes interacts with social, economic and political drivers of migration. He further finds that implications of such movements exposes migrants to further risks and more displacement.
Henry, Hani. "African Refugees in Egypt: Trauma, Loss, and Cultural Adjustment." Death studies 36.7 (2012): 583-604. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: trauma, loss, cultural adjustment, psychosocial, psycho-social, African Refugees, Egypt
This article focuses on the implications of traumas experienced by African refugees before migrating to Cairo and their influence on integration in Egypt. The study is based on six interviews with African refugees who discussed the circumstances of their departure, as well as their experiences in Egypt. The author finds that all participants kept bonds with their native culture, however, these bonds were manifested differently depending on the refugee's ability to assimilate his/her trauma and mourn cultural losses. Those who assimilated their trauma and mourned cultural losses developed bonds with their native cultures that helped them integrate in Egypt and tolerate the country's political conditions. Those who ere not able to assimilate their trauma, while also maintained bonds with their native culture that provided them with solace, they could not integrate in Egypt.
Jureidini, Ray. "Irregular Workers in Egypt: Migrant and Refugee Domestic Workers." International Journal on Multicultural Societies 11.2 (2009): 75-90. (Summary Adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: irregular migrants, Egypt, domestic workers, legal reforms, migrant convention
This study provides a brief history of the legislation and regulation of domestic work in Egypt, including the government's position in relation to its ratification of the international Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant workers and Members of Their Families. This is followed by a brief and selective summary of the results of a survey of Egyptian, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Nigerian, Sudanese, Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers in Egypt that demonstrates the significant rights violations, including racial and sexual abuse, of workers in Cairo.
Jureidini, Ray. "Regulation of Migration in Egypt." Middle East Institute. (2010). Link to Page
Keyword: migration, Egypt, legal, regulation
The article provide details on the national and international framework regulating migration in Egypt.
Katarzyna, Grabska, "Marginalization in Urban Spaces of the Global South: Urban Refugees in Cairo." Journal of Refugee Studies 19.3 (2006): 287-307. (Summary Adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: marginalization, Sudanese refugees, Cairo, urban refugees,
This paper explores the marginalization of Sudanese refugees in Cairo arguing that while socially, economically, and politically marginalized, urban refugees contribute to the transformation of urban spaces in Cairo. In regards to legal security and livelihood coping strategies, the paper demonstrates that legal status of refugees makes a little difference. However, despite their marginalization and lack of adequate assistance, refugees find creative ways of managing their livelihoods, attributing culturally and economically to their host society. The author, thus, concludes that refugees are social agents, not an economic burden for their host country.
McBride, Kelly, and Lindsey Kingston. "Legal Invisibility and the Revolution: Statelessness in Egypt." Human Rights Review 15.2 (2014): 159-75. link to Article
Keyword: stateless, citizenship, Egypt, legal invisibility
Drawing on data collected from two years of fieldwork, this study highlights the plight of stateless people in Egypt, a country with harsh punishments for illegal presence, entry and exit. The study further evaluates potential solutions for eliminating stateless in Egypt and protecting the rights of stateless people.
Meffert, Susan M., and Charles R. Marmar. "Darfur Refugees in Cairo: Mental Health and Interpersonal Conflict in the Aftermath of Genocide." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 24.11 (2009): 1835-48. PDF
Keywords: refugee, trauma, violence, Sudan, Darfur
The article discusses the gaps in mental health care and develops an understanding of the emotional and relationship problems of Darfur refugees in Cairo.The author argues that the refugee mental health care system has gaps in outpatient services. There is moderate to severe emotional distress among many Darfur refugees, including symptoms of depression and trauma, and interpersonal conflict.
Sadek, Sara. "Safe Haven Or Limbo? Iraqi Refugees in Egypt." International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies 5.2 (2011): 185-97. Link to Article
Keyword: Iraqi, refugees, Egypt, refugee regime
This article discusses the situation of Iraqi refugees in Egypt, their displacement, choosing Egypt as a destination country, and their socio-economic conditions. The article places the Iraq refugee experience within a broader context of the refugee regime in Egypt and the interactions between the refugees and host society.
EU Neighborhood Migration Report." European University Institute & Migration Policy Center & Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. Fargues, Philippe (Eds). PDF
Keyword: EU, Migration, neighboring
This report provides details on the demographic, legal, and socio-economic migration framework of 18 countries neighboring the EU. These countries are Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine.