The Geography of Displacement, Refugees’ Camps and Social Conflicts
The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, the authors analyze the geographical dimension of refugee camps in Africa by shedding light on the heterogeneous location patterns of hosting camps across countries as well as the economic settings in whic...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/832121648043706062/The-Geography-of-Displacement-Refugees-Camps-and-Social-Conflicts http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37207 |
| Summary: | The aim of this paper is twofold.
Firstly, the authors analyze the geographical dimension of
refugee camps in Africa by shedding light on the
heterogeneous location patterns of hosting camps across
countries as well as the economic settings in which refugee
camps are situated, which allows us to identify the main
determinants of such patterns. Second, the authors
investigate the effects of hosting refugees in camps on the
occurrence of protests and social conflicts, by using
geo-referenced panel data from a large sample of African
countries between 2000 and 2014. The main analysis is
performed by using 50x50 km cells as units of analysis,
GDELT and GED data on the frequency of protests, armed
conflicts and other organized violence events and data from
UNHCR Camp Mapping Database. By using a counterfactual
empirical strategy, the authors find that refugee camps
significantly increase the occurrence of protests only in
the first two years while no significant effect is detected
in the subsequent years. The authors do not find evidence of
any effect of camps location on the frequency of violence
events resulting in casualties. Moreover, by performing a
highly detailed analysis with GHSL data the authors find
that the presence of camps on average positively affects
economic growth. |
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