Some key takeaways from @lhammondsoas on Day 1 of @GCRF @UKRI_News #GCRFAddis
1️⃣ Vulnerability is rooted in multiple inequalities
2️⃣ Vulnerabilities shift and change over time
3️⃣ Migration is important mechanism for coping with vulnerability
4️⃣ Policy can increase vulnerability
1️⃣ Vulnerability is rooted in multiple inequalities
2️⃣ Vulnerabilities shift and change over time
3️⃣ Migration is important mechanism for coping with vulnerability
4️⃣ Policy can increase vulnerability
First #GCRFAddis panel on youth, gender and remittances. Interesting findings from @REFHorn on complex and variable ways in which youth training programmes in Uganda influence migration decisions including whether to return to S Sudan, move within country, migrate internationally
Context is everything in designing youth employment programmes. Fascinating example from @neelamraina on ways Kashmiri culture and identity shape hopes/aspirations of young people for the future. If difference makes you who you are then programmes should build on this #GCRFAddis 
Ways #gender shapes opportunities to access education and training and, in turn, decisions about whether or not to migrate is strong theme of questions to this panel. Ties back to deeper issues re:gender roles/inequalities including practice of child/forced marriage #GCRFAddis
Important to hear voices/perspectives of returnees/deportees to Ethiopia. Return is often valorised but there are significant challenges...financial, social and in terms of expectations for self, family and future. Some consider re-migration as a result #GCRFAddis
What are the most important things for those returning? Hope. The possibility to make a livelihood for self and family. Opportunities to speak and share experiences. To be heard #GCRFAddis @GCRF @UKRI_News
Fascinating start to Panel 8 of #GCRFAddis on intersections between education and protection during #displacement with reminder that although the benefits of education far outweigh the costs education can also put children at risk
For final panel of #GCRFAddis we turn, importantly, to identifying comprehensive responses to improve resilience. Clear evidence that right to work and freedom of movement can significantly improve outcomes and reduce risks/costs for refugees in case of Uganda cf Kenya
Vitally important as @priyadeshingkar suggests to think carefully about framing of protection/vulnerability. Big disconnect between migrant perspectives and how policy makers/humanitarian sector use ‘vulnerabity’ for their own ends eg banning migration for domestic work
Any discussion of vulnerability should go hand-in-hand with discussions about how to increase legal migration routes. Need to return to long-standing ideas about temporary worker schemes and other options that reduce migration risks/costs and, in turn, vulnerability #GCRFAddis
How do we defend human dignity when the power of human rights has declined? This question is absolutely central in shaping the way forward. I remain unconvinced that capitalism or ‘the market’ can solve problems facing refugees and other migrants. Inequalities run deep #GCRFAddis
Global solidarity is all well and good but we need to harness this solidarity to defend the right to seek - and be given- asylum/protection. Without rights there is no human dignity #GCRFAddis
Significant unease among #GCRFAddis participants about SEZs and other initiatives in Ethiopia under Job Compact which focus primarily on economic opportunities for refugees, or specific groups of refugees, with primary aim of preventing onward movement to Europe
Good overview of issues associated with Jobs Compact in Ethiopia available from @ODIdev odi.org/comment/10716-…
New Refugee Law in Ethiopia significantly extends protection and rights for refugees including freedom of movement and right to work. Primary objective is to improve outcomes for refugees and improve relations with host community but may also reduce secondary migration #GCRFAddis
More detailed overview of the new Refugee Law in Ethiopia can be found at africaportal.org/features/depth…
Questions from floor focus primarily on how new Ethiopian Refugee Law will be implemented in practice. Refugees still need to meet residency requirements and relatively small number will qualify #GCRFAddis
It’s a wrap! Intense few days at @UKRI_News @GCRF migration and displacement symposium in Addis. Great to meet existing partners on #SouthSouthMigration, Inequality and Development Hub & potential new ones. Lots to think about/take forward. Thanks @lhammondsoas and all #GCRFAddis
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