Abstract / Summary:
One of the most significant external effects of civil war is massive population dislocations and refugee flows across national boundaries. The effects of refugee flows remain poorly understood, however. One of the most plausible links between cross-border refugee flows and the spread of conflict has to do with the impact of migration flows on the ethnic balance of host countries. However, there is a lack of systematic data on the ethnic composition of refugee flows, making it difficult to test these claims. In conjunction with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees we propose the creation of two datasets, a first one global on the primary ethnic group(s) of refugee flows between states, and the second one geographically disaggregated listing refugee point of origin in the sending country and point of settlement in the receiving country. These datasets will be used to assess the effects of refugee flows.
